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Accepted Paper:

Contemporary art practice vs heritage politics  
Albert Heta (Stacion - Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina)

Paper short abstract:

I hate heritage and walls—old and new. Politicized heritage is against the people living around it. This can be used as the definition of a struggle that is going on in the country that defines Future Europe, Kosova.

Paper long abstract:

Heritage as a new tool for domination and colonization has been noted. Only countries with no heritage are saved from this complicated and concealed weapon against progress. That is why I can say that I hate heritage and walls—old and new. Politicized heritage is against the people living around it. This can also be used as the definition of a struggle that is going on in the country that defines Future Europe. Kosova is an international project and an activist force (Vetevendosja! movement), using contemporary art as practice and visual communication, which clashes with the project solutions that use heritage as a tool to control and expand territory—the future of a project-country and its people. These solutions and projects kill people and de-humanize monuments of common heritage and turn them into power monuments of the past. Power monuments are turning back the clock. Images of the Middle Ages and antiquity now are our reality. The difference is that now we can see what is going on, or can we?

Panel P33
Heritage and art between state ideology and grassroots activism
  Session 1