chronicle:
An ancient man, today's Homo Sapiens, found Altamira when he ignited the first flame.
At the moment when the spirit was reduced to the sand, the sea, the wind and the sun, the body drew the word - a symbol on the delta of Ada Bojana. The logos of ada shone. The infinite space of the night, where the sky was not visible because of the amount of stars, was opened. The campfire was ignited. First place, ancient and timeless, which man ever made.
An ancient man, today's Homo Sapiens, called Altamira "a place". The elements protected and satisfied the existence and dwelling. Staring in the fire, and her play on stone surfaces, full-fed and heated, meditative and contemplative, in self-awareness, he felt the need for creation. He produced masks, sculptures, tools and other usable objects, he painted the walls of the cave - proto-architecture, and he established the history of art, leaving the frames of the basic needs of existence. Homo Sapiens, the thinking man, while working as Homo Faber, he created culture by playing and found himself in Homo Ludens, the playing man.
The presence in the space of delta and the becoming one with elements caused the need for a place that was manifested by the creation of a camp, constantly changing, constantly emerging, permanently disappearing (and re-emerging), whose image reflected a group of people living in it and who (re)formed it by the means at its disposal. The needs and creations of the creator of a temporary settlement - the camp are expressed through a combination of the predetermined set of planned materials, brought in the backpack and an unpredictable (potential) set of materials, found on the site, causing an endless series of thematic variations.
When in the designer's being of Homo Sapiens Faber Ludens, the thinking, work and play were synthesized, then the cave, as a work of nature, became the heritage of culture and civilization, and art, design and architecture became man's existential and spiritual need. The essence of Ada, as an idea, space, social factor and field of activity, inspired play and creativity, and the camp as a place, besides the characteristic of satisfying the basic settlement needs in the given natural conditions, became a field of action of art and design experiment based on what you brought, what you were given and what you shared.
The forces, with which the elements of Ada - earth, water, air, and fire act on each other in space and infinity, creating a landscape, are the forces in people who do in time. The sign + or - in front of the action of a man only indicates the direction of that action through polarities, its creation or destruction, writing or erasing, building or demolishing, between the past and the future, in the present: ±∞ .
Thus, the idea gets in the man and the man in the idea. AΔA has become. The field of the endless circle is O:TVORENO (O:PEN)
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Homo Universalis left Altamira, giving it's Renaissance as a gift to the world.
Back from the coast to the "civilization", Stefan Radošević and Luka Višnjić brought the newly born idea to Čačak, their hometown. The days of wandering, walking and exploring public spaces of the town, the nights of talks on the riverside of the Zapadna Morava and recalling the exnexus (ekchekcyc) anonymous actions in public spaces, have created the need to o:pen (create) there, exactly where they spent their childhood. The idea was transformed into the elaboration of the guerrilla action tactic of setting up urban furniture elements. The right to a city and a place in the public space resulted in self-initiative, applied micro-urbanism, the conquest of space through a "trash" design, which is based on finding aesthetics and functionality in, and manipulating with, found and renovated, recycled materials.
In February 2016, AΔA (ada) is formed which arises from the interweaving of the essence of Ada Bojana's experience and the idea of unifying one's own works of art, design and architecture. Instead of original intention of archiving the entire previous Stefan's creative opus through this comprehensive abbreviation, AΔA becomes an idea and a group that preaches art, design, architecture and their permeation as a cultural - social - spatial need, through the initiative of the new concept - project O:TVORENO (O:PEN).
Thus, already in March, they went to Stephan's attic and found discarded metal trolley in which they saw their first, unique, multi-functional bench on the river bank, where many benches were either damaged or missing.
TREШ /tresh/, the art and experimental-music studio until then, became a workshop where various materials were transformed and from where they got a new life by returning back to the public space. Fully enthusiastic, Luka and Stefan began to work, and started recording photos, audios, texts and/or videos of the story's idea, thinking that one day, the entire process, and how it all started, would be presented to the public in some way. Documentation also cured the reconsideration of the futility of the entire enterprise and its result. The whole operation at the same time represented the act, the method and the product. In this way, this website (online place) became more than a classic website, a kind of "making of" about "making of", "storyboard" or an o:pen chronicle of one idea.
The way in which the multimedia palette of the content of this concept - project, digital and material corresponds, is the way this text communicates as a combination of chronicles, programs, essays, correspondences, stories, novels, articles, travel books, yearbooks, technical descriptions. The characteristic stylistic and content remix of the textual structure of this chronicle makes it a unique literary form, which functions as a part of the whole (blog) and as a work for itself.
Reflecting on how an experiment is observed and understood as a natural human need, and how the conquering and opening up space by creating a place to become more than street art, where one has active artists and more or less passive audiences, the whole operation transformed from the two men's game and over-the-night activism, into the concept of an educational workshop for many participants who, through thinking, working and playing, will design and create O:TVORENO IGRALIŠTE (O:PEN PLAYGROUND)...
Homo Spiritus (Movens) is aware of collective consciousness, preaches the idea, connected with a world like himself.
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