Teaser for Day 13 of the Balkan travel blog. Finally making it to the #spomenik at Doli, hitch-hiking to Pluzine, and the sad remains of what once a prime example of brutalist architecture, now overtaken by capitalism
https://www.xiwl.com/w/index.php/User:Knoken/Blog/2023/BiH_Part_2_Montenegro_Part_1#09.09.23_-_Between_Nik.C5.A1i.C4.87_and_Plu.C5.BEine

Travel blog teaser Day 11: with an electric mountain bike over the Ciro former railway track to the abandoned village of Hum (with #spomenik) and another way back with great views on the mountains
https://www.xiwl.com/w/index.php/User:Knoken/Blog/2023/BiH_Part_2_Montenegro_Part_1#07.09.23_-_Trebinje_and_surrounding_by_.28e-.29_bike

Day 8 travel blog teaser: Mostar, Neretva Canyon and Konjic. And a #spomenik here and there
https://www.xiwl.com/w/index.php/User:Knoken/Blog/2023/Croatia_Part_2_BiH_Part_1#04.09.23_-_Mostar_to_Konjic

Teaser for day 7 travel blog.
Crickets and a #spomenik
Video: https://www.flickr.com/photos/91998646@N00/53164478279
Blog:
https://www.xiwl.com/w/index.php/User:Knoken/Blog/2023/Croatia_Part_2_BiH_Part_1#03.09_-_Knin_to_Mostar
took me some time, since my laptop stopped working for a few days (possibly might break down for good, so if no updates follow.. it's my laptop, not me)

Day 6 travel blog teaser:
Hiking/biking along a dried up river with only dried up waterfalls in a beautiful karst canyon to end up at a #spomenik in a high valley with a beautiful view on mount Dinara.
Oh, the source of the Krka did have water..
https://www.xiwl.com/w/index.php/User:Knoken/Blog/2023/Croatia_Part_2_BiH_Part_1#02.09.23_-_Knin_-_Pola.C4.8Da

Makedonium aka Ilinden Memorial, Kruševo, North Macedonia #architecture #photography #spomenik #NorthMacedonia #fotografie #architektur

ah, the chinese, you should always think carefully beforehand about who you let build your infrastructure
https://www.rferl.org/a/serbia-monument-war-wwii-wwi-negrisori-china-construction-demolition-highway-belgrade/32333087.html
#serbia #spomenik
#roads

newest illustration i minted on versum. but i don't sell it for now

#illustration #spomenik #exyu #lineart #monument

I thought this was a really great article about what these #spomenik monuments I've seen here and there are really about.

https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/7269/spomenik-yugoslav-monument-owen-hatherley

Något som jag nästan drömmer om att få göra i framtiden är att åka på en spomeniksafari i forna Jugoslavien. #skulptur #konst #art

Dessa skulpturer kan man läsa om på https://www.spomenikdatabase.org

Finns det nån i flödet som sett någon #spomenik IRL?

Matija Salaj, Šime Vula and Ante Kuduz, 'Monument to the revolution' in Makarska (1974)
<photography and print art by Marko Krojac>
#art #antifa #antifascism #revolution #Yugoslavia #photography #ScreenPrinting #monument #Spomenik
More by Krojac:
https://markokrojac.blogspot.com/search?q=spomenik

"There is [...] an Orientalism to #Spomenik and work like it – and in the former #Yugoslavia, “we need to reclaim our own history through the lens or gaze of the big Other.”
Yet not only in Croatia, but in France, the USA, Britain, real, open fascism – fences, walls, racial laws, deportations, camps – is once again mainstream. The Yugoslav experience of fighting against it on the basis of intercultural solidarity — and, also, of failing to maintain that memory, and of its collapse in the 1990s into resurgent fascism — has much to tell us. These monuments are its #concrete legacy, intended to speak of what Yugoslavs had emerged from, how they wanted to be remembered, and what they hoped for. They deserve better than to be glimpsed for a few seconds on Tumblr."
https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/7269/spomenik-yugoslav-monument-owen-hatherley