A booklet by the author Miloš Kosec, with introductory text by Nika van Berkel and Karmen Ponikvar, authors of the soundwalk The Green Atrium of the City.

There is an increasing tendency in Ljubljana to forget that a core component of a city is its cultural identity, which is also reflected in its architecture. In this endeavour, it is key that cultural heritage, which
people must interact with personally, remains alive. Combining art and architecture, the sound walk draws inspiration from the historical complex designed by Jože Plečnik and constructed beginning in 1925. It plays with memories of the past and weaves them into the present. We aim – through sonority and historicisation – to bring the degraded space of Plečnik’s stadium, contorted and distorted by decaying time, closer to the residents and visitors of Ljubljana. Closed to the public since 2008, instead of being a dedicated space for the public, the central stadium in Ljubljana’s Bežigrad district is deteriorating and increasingly losing its significance.

Link to the artist’s notebook in pdf.

The booklet in physical form is available for the price of 5,00€ at our headquarters at Trg prekomorskih brigad 1, 1000 Ljubljana. Please send prior notice to info@cona.si to arrange the time and date for your visit.

COLOPHON

Miloš Kosec: 4’33’’ in Bežigrad
on the work The Green Atrium of the City by Nika van Berkel and Karmen Ponikvar

Text: Miloš Kosec, PhD
Introductory text: Nika van Berkel and Karmen Ponikvar
Translation into English and proofreading: Jana Renée Wilcoxen
Proofreading in Slovenian: Melita Silič
Cover image and design: Matej Tomažin
Editor: Irena Pivka

Publisher: Cona, zavod za procesiranje sodobne umetnosti, Ljubljana, 2024
Book collection: Steklenik