antimonument

Antimonument: collective action of making sculptures

The new part of the project “You betrayed the Party just when you should have helped it”, initiated by Andreja Kulunčić at the exhibition in MMSU Rijeka in 2022, is conceived as a series of actions involving the creation of figurines in which a total of 850 women participate. By crafting clay figurines, they symbolically dedicate one figurine for each of the female political prisoners of the Goli Otok political camp, active from 1950 to 1956, alternately located on the islands of Goli Otok and Sveti Grgur. During that period, more than 850 women accused of association with the informbiro underwent extremely cruel camp torture. In the camp itself, they had to, with their own hands and primitive tools, build paths and structures that are still visible in traces today. The punishment system, in which female prisoners were forced to be both victims and perpetrators of torture, made the camp a place of suffering and humiliation. The harassment of accused women and police surveillance continued even after their release from the camp, and they were never rehabilitated, nor were the camp areas protected from devastation and decay.

So far, the workshops have been held in the following cities:

• Rijeka, in the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art during the exhibition “You betrayed the Party when you should have helped it”, workshops were continuously held from 22.2.2022. until 20.3.2022.

• Zagreb, at the Center for Women’s Studies, 25.5.2022.

• Karlovac, in cooperation with the Korak Women’s Group, 1.06.2022.

• Korenica, in the women’s association NIT, 3.3.2022.

• Tenja, in the Women’s Association Izvor, 11.6.2022.

• Zagreb, Center for Women Victims of War ROSA, 15.10.2022.

• Zagreb, Center for Women Victims of War ROSA, 26.10.2022.

• Zagreb, in the House of Human Rights, in cooperation with the Documenta association, 6.03.2023.

• Pula, at the Giardini 2 bookstore club, in cooperation with the association Sa(n)jam knjigu u Istri, 25.03.2023.

• Pula, at the Giardini 2 bookstore club, in cooperation with the association Sa(n)jam knjigu u Istri, 26.03.2023.

• Lopar, in the Lopar Culture Center, island of Rab, 21.04.2023.

• Rab, in the Public Open University, island of Rab, 22.4.2023.

• Zagreb, Center for Women’s Studies, 2.10.2023.

• Zagreb, IV gymnasium, 10.10.2023.

• Zabok, School of Art, Design, Graphics and Clothing (ŠUDIGO), 9.11. 2023.

• Zabok, School of Art, Design, Graphics and Clothing (ŠUDIGO), 9.11. 2023.

The project “850 women for 850 women” is supported by: Kultura Nova Foundation, City of Zagreb, Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia and Mediterranean Women’s Fund.