Travelling Communiqué
The project Travelling Communiqué is an investigation into the presidential Photo Service archive (1948–1980) of Josip Broz Tito, initiated by Armin Linke, Doreen Mende and Milica Tomić. As part of DAI's roaming academy, Doreen Mende has curated this educational segment of the project in order to investigate the archival pictures taken on the first Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Belgrade, September 1961. Travelling Communiqué enquires into the possibilities of ‘prolonging’ the formation of the NAM into the social conditions of the present. The NAM can be understood as a third space of emancipation that sought to unsettle the bipolar world order through a wide variety of anti-colonial thinking. The Travelling Communiqué is an attempt to understand the process of becoming a political subject, initiated by those without names whose voices exist despite the efforts to silence them.
Travelling Communiqué at Addis Ababa, March 2014
Original Image © Museum of Yugoslav History
– http://www.travellingcommunique.net/
– Museum of Yugoslav History
– Roaming Academy, Dutch Art Institute
Photograph by Coco Duivenvoorde and adaptation of photograph by Photo Service of the President of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Also If You Would Not Make a Manifest 'Work'
This "request" was part of an email sent to me by Doreen Mende, the curator of the research project Travelling Communique where this video essay is part of. The project is informed by the idea that the collective statement articulated as a call for a new kind of internationalism by the 25 delegates of the first Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Belgrade, September 1961, remains unanswered. Travelling Communique enquires into the possibilities of 'prolonging' the formation of the NAM into the social conditions of the present. The NAM can be understood as a third space of emancipation that sought to unsettle the bipolar world order through a wide variety of anti-colonial thinking. The Travelling Communique is an attempt to understand the process of becoming a political subject, initiated by those without names whose voices exist despite the efforts to silence them.
Travelling Communique– Museum of Yugoslav History
– official website
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