Monday 2 March 2015

project:
this weekend I investigated the situation around the golf-club project and found out that although it looks as if it is abandoned, it is not. The owners of the land had to sell it to another firm because of the credit which they could not pay back. But last week there was a meeting of the representatives of the project with the head of local administration. they showed a new version of the project. There are plans that by 2020 there will be a golf resort in the area.
So we witness how neoliberal projects are being frozen, but not abandoned. Dreams stay, and even develop, as the investors provide a new architectural project of the club. And simultaneously, these dreams prevent the re-cultivation of the territory and actually contribute to conservation. The building of the TS (kolkhoz) situated on the lands sold for the golf project stay there with all the furniture and infrastructures untouched. The territory is closed and nobody still anything from the place. it can be seen as a historical artefact of the gone era, and neoliberal dreaming is contributing to this preservation. I plan to study this paradox by contrasting the images from the project portfolio and images of the real state of the lands.
but i do not want to create a binary opposition, instead to see how dreams and material object coevolve with each other. What is in the golf-projects images taken from "reality" and what role does this play there? And how do dreams shape the real things we witness?


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