Lecture: "The Proximity of Monuments: Yugoslav Memorials as Spatial Storytelling" by Vladimir Kulić
Vortrag |
Invitation to the Guest Lecture “The Proximity of Monuments: Yugoslav Memorials as Spatial Storytelling” by Vladimir Kulić, Professor of Architecture Iowa State University.
In the past two decades, Yugoslav antifascist monuments have circulated globally as striking photographs. Yet this visual afterlife is fundamentally inadequate to what these monuments do: they are designed to be traversed, not viewed, demanding the physical proximity of a body moving through space. The lecture argues that the most important Yugoslav memorials operate as instruments of spatial narration, structuring sequential encounters across composite memorial landscapes. They engage visitors through both affective intensity and representational meaning, producing an entanglement of feeling and signification that can only be activated on site.
The guest lecture is organised by the Chair of History of Architecture and Curatorial Practice.
When:
Monday, 18 May 2026
6:15 pm
Where:
Vorhoelzer Forum (R 5166)
Technische Universität München (TUM)
Arcisstraße 21
80333 München