Readymade Ilica / Projekt Ilica is a multidisciplinary project with an aim to find new purpose for the currently neglected and unused spaces in Ilica, as well as to re-design the role of the main city street, to preserve its crafts and to maintain, but also to open new cultural facilities. Despite its neglected urban infrastructure, Ilica represents a symbolic and recognizable topos of Zagreb.
Readymade Ilica Festival will be held at 5 locations in Ilica, May 5 – 12, 2017.The project will be developed over the next 5 years and the interventions and actions of Readymade Ilica Festival will try to put an emphasis on the importance of participatory and collaborative efforts both in art and other forms of culture and on economy of exchange, solidarity and inclusion. The project is aimed at addressing social problems of revitalizing the street and the vacant spaces in it by activating the creative and cultural industries in order to point out the active role of culture in shaping the life and building the identity of the local community.
Ilica is one of the longest and oldest streets in Zagreb, with more than 500 house numbers. It’s often considered the city’s main artery, but most of its traditional stores have been closing down, especially in its east end, leaving unused empty spaces, ironically, in one of the busiest streets in the city.
The first phase of Ilica research will focus on the section of Ilica between Frankopanska, Britanski trg and Trg Franje Tuđmana. Using innovative tools, new technologies and communication materials, the Festival will try to bring a new era of rich cultural life in Ilica through cultural events, walks, interactions, educational workshops, lectures and presentations.
The program for today includes an interactive workshop on how unused spaces in Ilica could be used, showroom and “Nastalo u Ilici” (Made in Ilica) exhibition opening, “Ilica” documentary film screening and a concert.
Follow the project at www.projektilica.com and on Facebook.
