Turneja dokumentarnog veza _ Documentary Embroidery Tour / ŠTOJ * ARADAC * BITOLA * MOSTAR

KRAJ LETA U DONJEM ŠTOJU
/ END OF SEASON IN DONJI ŠTOJ
1. stanica na Turneji dokumentarnog veza u Donjem Štoju (Ulcinj, Crna Gora), od 15. avgusta do 3. septembra. First station of the Documentary Embroidery Circuit, from 15 August to 3 September in Donji Štoj (Ulcinj, Montenegro).

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Shtoy, administratively belonging to the municipality of Ulcinj is placed on the south Adriatic coast of Montenegro, 8km from the Albanian border. For this reason the population of Shtoy and Ulcinj is predominantly Albanian, a minority in Montenegro. Its location in the vicinity of the delta of the Bojana river provides a rich variety of continental and maritime vegetation and animal life to the whole region. Another particularity of Shtoy’s history lay in the fact that it really has only been 3 decades since working-class people from all over ex-Yugoslavia started building their weekend houses there, causing a burst of urbanization, in what was previously a rural area.

Nowadays Shtoy is a socially interesting place, a temporary harmonious “autonomous zone” for Serbs, Albanians, Kosovo-Albanians, Bosnians, Montenegrins and Croats during the summer vacation. This creates a unique mixed situation that can rarely be seen anywhere in today’s situation of constant political tensions.

During 20 days, the embroidery office opened its proverbial doors to the public at Stoj, talking to workers and vacationers, collecting impressions, stories and drawings, and transforming them into a large scale tapestry. The materials that were used were locally recycled materials, obtained from two different tailor-shops from Ulcinj. This gives the tapestry a different look than previous Documentary Embroidery works. We embroidered in several local businesses, talking to workers and locals about the nature of the place. The embroideries made depict a variety of issues such as the changing of the street-names (as a result of the changing of the population), the effects of tourism on infrastructure and on the natural sphere and many others.

U odnosu na dosadasnje poduhvate dokumentarnog veza stojska tapiserija je specificna jer je radjena na tekstilnim restlovima nabavljenim iz lokalnih snajderskih radnji koje su u letnjem periodu uglavnom dobijale poslove prepravljenja dugih pantalona u sorceve. Na ovim komadima nejednakih velicina i formi (predominantno restlova farmerki) iz dana u dan vezli su se partikularni detalji iz lokalnog zivota o kojima se nasiroko diskutovalo sa lokalnim prolaznicima, namernicima, prodavcima, komsijama, ugostiteljima. A ovi delovi su se malo po malo spajali jedan sa drugim u tapiseriju velikog formata. Tako je izmedju ostalog zabelezena istorija menjanja naziva ulica u Donjem Stoju, naizmenicne migracije turista (iz eks-Ju regiona) tokom leta i ptica tokom zime ciji dolazak takodje povlaci i najezdu lovaca, onda ‘Bostan fontana’ (specifican nacin prodavanja lubenica na putu), prica o jednoj sovi koja je nasla svoje staniste u odzaku te zbog nje vlasnik kuce ne lozi vec 10 godina, zatim prizor iz lokalne ‘mitologije’ na terasi Hotela Galeb gde su se lokalni mladici takmicili u stilu, sarmantnosti i ucili jedni od drugih, varietet jela koja se spremaju u jednoj stojskoj tepsiji, itd. Tekstualni zapisi na tapiseriji ne postuju jezicku koherentnost te se sadrzaj moze citati na raznim lokalnim jezicima i narecjima.

 

Special thanks to Vahida Nimanbegu, Nebojša Milikić, Njegovo Visočanstvo Zlaja, Filip, Duško and Ivana Kamber, Mira and Zvonko Rondić, Ivana, Branko and Aleksa Branković, the staff of Noki Burek, Anja for the report, Maja for the textile remnants, Samir Dabović, and many others.