Revealing the extractive violence inherent in the appropriation of public space and architectural heritage.
Earthmovers, Endi Tupja & millonaliu, video 05’31”, 2020, EN ST EN
Commons are inextricably linked to systems of exploitation. Appropriating the surroundings and the architectural inheritance of public space regardless of the consequences, is a form of extractive violence. Earthmovers is a film essay examining the bulldozer as a significant tool of post socialists countries’ embrace of neoliberalism, brutal wave of privatisation and dispossession of commons. Tracing the history of the machine through different forms of languages, the film conflates the seemingly obvious colonial violence of the past and the neo-colonial of the now with a poetic stance on the illusion of having (un)-learnt histories of servilism and power, transformative technology and fascism.
Endi Tupja
Visual artist and filmmaker, based in Berlin. Her research centres on experimenting with strategies of memory recuperation, visuality, and the subverted geo-morphometry, influencing identity and history. Her current focus lies on performative writing, micro biographies in the space of live performance and video installation. Invested in exposing south to south narrations of subjugation within the Mediterranean area, especially involving the Italian fascist project within Albania and the legacy of the ottoman Empire in the Balkans.
Millonaliu
Klodiana Millona and Yuan Chun Liu are spatial practitioners working at the intersection of architecture, research and image making. Their work focuses on the politics of invisibility in space and invisibilized spatial practices within dominant narratives of the built environment. Positioned, both, within architecture and its refusal, their practice often follows their respective roots in Tirana and Taipei.
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Camera | Endi Tupja
Script | Endi Tupja&Klodiana Millona
CG | Yuan Chun Liu
Sound composition | Giulia Francavilla
Production / Editing | Klodiana Millona&Yuan Chun Liu
