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Monument for a Just City
Zagreb, 2008
Martin Krenn in cooperation with:
Sonja Lebos, Marija Lopac, Dina Roncevic, Sonja Soldo, Vesna Vukovic
a social sculpture in the frame of the
UrbanFestival *Zagreb* "How we regret..."
During his research residence in Zagreb Martin Krenn has held a three-day workshop in which an answer to the theme of this year's festival was sought collectively in conversations about the social situation. The result is an action: the erection of a Monument that demands a Just City.
The public is invited to participate in building a monument out of beverage industry waste - used plastic bottles. In developed countries, the beverage industry usually bears the expense of managing packaging waste while in Croatia the introduction of the Regulation on Packaging and Packaging Waste has simply resulted in a jump in the prices of these products. Following the introduction of the deposit system in 2006 according to this regulation, dumpstering the waste provides the income of the increasing number of inhabitants of the city living in poverty. The deposit system has made the ever deepening social division visible, a division that defines the movement of particular citizens and the general choreography of their everyday life.
The monument is raised as a gesture of critique towards the governing politics that ignore this situation.
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