Nonument Group, in cooperation with the Centre for creativity, invites you to field events that will take place in three locations: in the park of Vile Rafut near Nova Gorica , in the park of vile Bled in Bled and next to the Plecnik Stadium in Ljubljana .
Field events are a basis for reflection on innovative ways of recording and preserving heritage, a way to engage communities, and a starting point for artistic interventions that look back on abandoned, overlooked, forgotten, erased architectures and open up space for new perspectives on them.
We will dedicate two events to Villa Rafut. In the first, 2. at 19 O'clock in June , we will be guided by an introductory online lecture by architect and artist Mohamed Adel Dessouki, following the diverse state of the architecture of Lascak in Alexandria (from many ruined buildings to buildings in which informal construction is growing, and the building that now houses the Museum of royal jewelry). This reading will also be a starting point for understanding the complex state of erasure of architectural heritage in Alexandria in general. Dessouki is also a founding member of the initiative Save Ale format , which since 2012 has been advocating the protection of the rich architectural heritage in this city and draws attention to the alarming state of its erasure.
On Saturday, 4. at 17 o'clock in June , we will move to the park of Villa Rafut, in which the renovation begins. There, Milos Kosec will lead through the ruins of the villa and the garden and, in dialogue with Kaja wide and guests, ask about the domestic and foreign in space. The tour will be intertwined with the performance of the Society for the preservation of the cultural heritage of alexandrines , in which we will listen to songs and excerpts from the letters of women who, in the same period as Lascak, mainly as care workers (educators, wet nurses, governesses and maids) traveled to Alexandria for earnings.
Anton Lascak or Antonio Lasciac was a Gorizia architect of Slovenian descent . He built a dazzling career in the metropolises of colonial Egypt at the end of the nineteenth century. For his architectural merits, he received the noble title of bega from the Egyptian Viceroy Abbas II. In his old age, he wanted to settle down in the Oriental setting of Villa Rafut, which he built in his native Gorizia, but, according to a combination of circumstances, he died at the advanced age of ninety in Cairo.
Mohamed Adel Dessouki is an educator and visual artist. He received his B. A. in architecture from Alexandria University in 2000 and his M. A. from the Arab Academy of Science and technology in 2003 and his Ph. D. in architecture from Cairo University in 2012. He is currently an associate professor at the Department of Architecture at the Arab Academy of Science and technology. In her artistic practice, Dessouki V focuses on memory, architecture and the everyday. He writes a blog about the city of Alexandria, its endangered heritage and history for Gudran Medina Mot'aba (walls of the exhausted City). He lives and works in Alexandria, Egypt.
Production: Nonument Group / MoTA - Museum of transient arts
The project is part of the partner network of the Center for creativity platform. The project is co-financed by the European Union from the European Regional Development Fund and the Republic of Slovenia, MOL – Department of culture and the Ministry of the environment and spatial planning.
Design: Damjan Ili /
Nonument Group v sodelovanju s Centrom za kreativnost, vabi na terenske dogodke, ki se bodo odvili na treh lokacijah: v parku Vile Rafut pri Novi Gorici , v parku Vile Bled na Bledu ter ob Plečnikovem stadionu v Ljubljani .
Terenski dogodki so osnova za razmislek o inovativnih načinih beleženja in ohranjanja dediščine, način za vključevanje skupnosti, ter izhodišče za umetniške intervencije, ki upirajo pogled v zapuščene, spregledane, pozabljene, izbrisane arhitekture in odpirajo prostor za nove poglede nanje.
Vili Rafut bomo posvetili dva dogodka. V prvem, 2. junija ob 19h , nas bo po raznolikem stanju Laščakove arhitekture v Aleksandriji (od mnogih porušenih stavb do stavb, v katerih se razrašča neformalna gradnja, in stavbe, v kateri danes domuje Muzej kraljevskega nakita) vodilo uvodno spletno predavanje arhitekta in umetnika Mohameda Adela Dessoukija . To branje bo tudi izhodišče za razumevanje kompleksnega stanja izbrisa arhitekturne dediščine v Aleksandriji nasploh. Dessouki je namreč tudi ustanovni član iniciative Save Alex , ki od leta 2012 zagovarja varovanje bogate arhitekturne dediščine v tem mestu in opozarja na alarmantno stanje njenega izbrisa.
V soboto, 4. junija ob 17h , pa se bo bomo preselili v park vile Rafut, v katerem se začenja prenova. Tam bo po ruševinah vile in vrtu vodil Miloš Kosec in se v dialogu s Kajo Širok in gosti spraševal o domačem in tujem v prostoru. Ogled bo prepleten z nastopom društva za ohranjanje kulturne dediščine aleksandrink , v katerem bomo prisluhnili pesmim in odlomkom iz pisem žensk, ki so v istem obdobju kot Laščak predvsem kot delavke skrbi (vzgojiteljice, dojilje, guvernante in služkinje) potovale v Aleksandrijo zaradi zaslužka.
Anton Laščak ali Antonio Lasciac je bil goriški arhitekt slovenskega rodu . Bleščečo kariero si je zgradil v metropolah kolonialnega Egipta ob koncu devetnajstega stoletja. Za svoje arhitekturne zasluge je od egiptovskega podkralja Abasa II prejel plemiški naslov bega. Na stara leta se je želel ustaliti v orientalskem okolju Vile Rafut, ki si jo je zgradil na domačem Goriškem, vendar pa je po spletu okoliščin v visoki starosti devetdeset let umrl v Kairu.
Mohamed Adel Dessouki je pedagog in vizualni umetnik. Diplomiral je iz arhitekture na Aleksandrijski univerzi leta 2000 in magistriral na Arabski akademiji za znanost in tehnologijo leta 2003 ter doktoriral iz arhitekture na Univerzi v Kairu leta 2012. Trenutno je docent na oddelku za arhitekturo na Arabski akademiji za znanost in tehnologijo. V svoji umetniški praksi se Dessouki v osredotoča na spomin, arhitekturo in vsakdanjost. O mestu Aleksandrija, njeni ogroženi dediščini in zgodovini piše blog za Gudran Medina Mot’aba (Zidovi izčrpanega mesta). Živi in dela v Aleksandriji v Egiptu.
Produkcija: Nonument Group / MoTA – Muzej tranzitornih umetnosti
Projekt je del partnerske mreže Platforme Center za kreativnost. Projekt sofinancirata Evropska unija iz Evropskega sklada za regionalni razvoj in Republika Slovenija, MOL – Oddelek za kulturo in Ministrstvo za okolje in prostor.
Oblikovanje: Damjan Ilić
