Dunjaluk live at the Monument to the Revolution, Korčanica

Описание: Na mjestu partizanske bolnice iz Drugog svjetskog rata iz šumskog tla izbijaju dvije betonske latice. Bolnica nije sačuvana, ali zastupa je spomenik: monumentalan, izvanzemaljski, bezvremen. Kad staneš pred njega, vidiš i prošlost i budućnost.

Spoj betona i šume ima specifičnu snagu. Umjesto da novi element naruši stari, on mu pruža još jedan, neobičan kostur za rast. Šuma obujmljuje beton i prilagođava ga sebi.

Mjesto je danas zapušteno, kao i ideja kojoj je spomenik posvećen.

Mi kao Dunjaluk, bend koji tradiciji daje nov izraz, pronašli smo se u tom ambijentu, u spoju organskog i sintetičkog, reda i kaosa, života i propadanja.

Smisao je bio komunicirati s prostorom, oživjeti ga zvukom, dopustiti mu da ga oblikuje. U krajnjem slučaju, dati mu svrhu u doba kad ju je izgubio. Boje glasa i gitare uvelike su rezultat volje betona.

Ovaj video je priča o jednom prostoru ispričana kroz tradicijsku muziku i vizualnu umjetnost koje su ondje nastale. U njemu se prožimaju dva pokušaja da se prošlost prenese u sadašnjost i preda u nemilosrdne ruke budućnosti.

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At the site of the secret World War II partisan hospital two concrete petals shoot up from the forest floor. The hospital hasn’t been preserved, but the monument represents it: tremendous, alien, timeless. Standing in front of it, you see both past and future.

The concrete and the forest combined are powerful in a specific way. The new element is not a disturbance. It provides the forest with a new skeleton to grow on. The forest envelops the concrete, adapting it to itself.

The site is neglected today, as well as the idea it represents.

We as Dunjaluk, a band giving new expression to tradition, have recognized ourselves in that setting, in the mix of organic and synthetic, order and chaos, growth and decay.

The idea was to communicate with the space, to animate it, to let it shape the sound. Ultimately, to give it purpose in a time when it has none. The timbre of voice and guitar are to a large extent dictated by concrete.

This video is a story of a space told through its traditional music and visual art. It’s a fusion of two attempts to bring the past into the present, and give it over into the ruthless hands of the future.

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music: Dunjaluk_Dunja Bahtijarević_Luka Čapeta_traditional
audio recording and production: Luka Grubišić Čabo and Mateo Patekar
directed and edited by Marina Uzelac
director of photography: Bojan Koštić
drone footage: Konrad Mulvaj
costumes: Ira Rumora
production assistant: Valent Balun

supported by MOST music and Creative Europe