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on the local and world art scene at the time
were an offspring of the spirit of togetherness
following the '68 collectivism and last appear-
ance of modernist trust in the social mission
of art and artists. Even though the manifesta-
tion Book and Society - 22% was about a col-
lective action, what was more important was
the collaboration of Igor Grubi with the
Autonomous Cultural Factory Attack which
gathers together various initiatives of alterna-
tive culture. At the time, its structure and the
Andreia Kulukk
Closed Reality - Embryo, 2000
dynamics of relations towards the state and civil
society represented an ideal and perhaps the most
successful reminiscence of the organizational
model of the most productive alternative culture in
the '80s, so that it would develop into one of the
most authentic carriers of the anti-globalization
program today.
The shift of artistic activity from expressing
unbounded creativity to the creation of a new
model of sociability and communication situations
is present also in the work of artist Andreja Kulunit
(b. 1968). Her project Closed Reality - Embryo
(http://embryo.inet.hr) is a multidisciplinary art
project which explores, in an experimental way, the
implications of genetic manipulations, instigating
and researching the level of social consciousness in
general with regards to questions about the mar-
ginalization and the closing of non-marketable
options of the future. The project was realized as an
interactive web page through several develop-
ment stages presented in a gallery, as well as
in a series of lectures, presentations. talks and
discussions with various institutions of artistic,
educational, feminist and scientific orienta-
tion. Here again we see an attempt to articu-
late a socially relevant issue by confronting
various audiences (academic, activist, expert),
questioning the educational possibilities of
art, using the energy of team work and the
hybrid organizational model which are both
based in the art world as well as in the realm
of activism and civil organization. These same
features are present in the latest project by
Andreja Kuluni, the multidisciplinary project
Distributive Justice (http://www.distributive-
justice.com) which deals with the issue of just-
ness in the distribution of goods within a com-
munity. Again the project is being realized as
an interactive work on the Internet, a series of
lectures, discussions, presentations and differ-
ent forms of gallery presentations, but in this
project, whose duration temporally has been
defined as running from 2001 to 2003, the
ambition to develop into a permanent open
forum has also been clearly articulated.
The project Weekend Art: Hallelujah the Hill
(1996-2000) by artist Aleksandar Battista Ili (b.
1965) was realized in collaboration with artists
Ivana Keser (b. 1967) and Tomislav Gotovac (b.
1937). In the late '50s Tomislav Gotovac made
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