Skalamerija [Contraption]
Skalamerija is a follow up project of my Arizona Road project from 2002. Skalamerija is a contraption aimed at a de-formalizing the Arizona Market’s current highly regulated spatial order, which has led to the market’s recession. Ever since its regulation in 2002, the trade and urban development of the Arizona Market has been decreasing, thus threatening it very existence in the future. While no sustainable development is planned at this point, the future of the Arizona Market and its eventual transformation into a place of both trade and living will depend on its becoming less oriented on sales of cheap imported goods in favor of alternative economic programs. Skalamerija capitalizes on locally available materials, resources and skills in order to initiate production of home-made and locally specific food and handicraft products. The contraption thus provides infrastructure for cooking, barbecuing, smoking meat, roasting lamb, sewing, ironing, and carpet weaving.
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Azra Akšamija, Skalamerija [Contraption], 2009
mixed media (1 sculpture, 24 photographs)
Place: Den Haag, Netherlands. Produced within the group show: Soft City at Stroom Den Haag (13. Sep. – 08 Nov. 2009). Produced by: The team of Stroom. Photos: Dubravka Sekulić. Collaborators: Ibrahim Akšamija, Dietmar Offenhuber