Metamorphosis II | Site specific artistic intervention
Artist: KOJA
From material evidence in Kosovo, there is a considerable number of abandoned modern-architecture buildings which are unstudied (and uncatalogued) in regards to their architectural, historical, cultural, and social values. Currently, we live in a time when one’s attention is dominated by the representation rather than the very presence/existence of a certain entity. Ironically, the experience of buildings is also mediated through their representation. Could an artistic action provoke the experience of a building by avoiding and transposing the story/meaning represented by the building in question? Could one provoke the perception of the building in question as an experience? Could the presence of a building be brought back, and is it possible to reconstruct it? Could the arbitrary choice of the citizens be legitimized as a determinant and a decision-making mechanism for their own needs?
These issues are explored through an artistic intervention at the building of the former Marsi Restaurant located at Kodra e Trimave neighborhood in Prishtina.This intervention presents the approach to this issue as a starting-point, not to offer a solution, but rather to highlight it in order to generate a discourse in several different professional levels, as well as to address it to decision-makers, who are consequently the ones to determine the fate of these buildings.
Supporting Team: Skender Xhukolli, Sami Podvorica, Endrit Jashanica ; Contributors in the research process: Arneida Muqiqi, Blend Bytyqi, Dafina Thaqi, Diellza Bullaku, Donat Pira, Egzon Ademi, Elitë Morina, Endrit Mecini, Era Qena, Kaltrina Berisha, Kushtrim Lushtaku, Liri Hashani, Renea Begolli, Tringa Krasniqi, Urtesë Zeneli, Valza Berisha Location: Sr.”Bedri Gjini” – Kodra e Trimave, (Former “Restorant Marsi”)
