Pieter de Raadtstraat 35B
3033VC Rotterdam
Netherlands
Veljka Milicevica 20
11000 Belgrade
Serbia
stealth@ultd.net
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STEALTH’s curatorial interventions are a base for projects that,
since 2004, mobilise thinking on shared future(s) of the city and its
culture in a/o Teasing
Minds at Kunstverein Munich, Archiphoenix
at the Dutch Pavilion at the Architecture Biennial in Venice, the Tirana
International Contemporary Art Biennial, IMPAKT
festival Matrix City in Utrecht, the fiction-based project Once
Upon a Future for the Evento biannual in Bordeaux, and the
exhibition A Life in Common
with Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto in Italy.
Their spatial interventions, since 2006, include a 600
m2 interactive installation at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in
Rotterdam, a public art commission for a
schoolyard in Knivsta, Sweden, made in collaboration with artist
Marjetica Potrč, a three
months long hands-on intervention in public space made in
collaboration with Röda Sten Konsthall and the local community of
Gothenburg, a cultural
development node out of recycled materials in a slum
neighbourhood of Medellín, Colombia, made with the art group El
Puente_lab.
For about fifteen years STEALTH investigates the urban developments in
Western Balkans, starting from their Wild
City research on the massive unplanned transformation of the
city of Belgrade since the 1990s. Since 2009, STEALTH have been
running four editions of the Cities
Log research that investigate the roles of different players
in the development of cities in the region. A(u)ction,
the Novi Sad edition of this project received Ranko Radović Award in
2011. As part of Unfinished Modernisations project, they produced Kaluđerica
from Šklj to Abc in 2012, an illustrated narrative on a dream
of just legalisation of this, one of the largest informal settlements
in the Balkans.
Since 2010, in collaboration with Cultural Center Rex, STEALTH
initiated the platform Ko
gradi grad (Who Builds the City) in Belgrade and
within it in 2012 the long-term community based project Smarter
Building. In 2013 they formed Stad
in de Maak (City in the Making) association in Rotterdam to,
through a ten-year long process, tackle the “toxic assets” of the
stranded Dutch welfare housing.
Since 2011 STEALTH are contributing to practice based research at the
Royal Institute of Arts in Stockholm. In this context, in 2013, they
co-organised the conference Commoning
the City. Recently they have been teaching at the Willem
de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam and MaHKU in Utrecht. Since 2000,
STEALTH gave about 130 lectures or presentations and contributed to
numerous books and publications.
STEALTH spiritedly pioneer low-energy strategies for Do-It-Yourself
and Do-It-Ourselves approaches to the urban environment (like in our
projects and initiatives for housing or schoolyard), experiment and
advocate open technology platforms, and enjoy tinkering with maker
technology.
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Ana Džokić (1970, Belgrade, RS) was trained as an architect at the University of Belgrade and completed a two-year postgraduate program at the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam. Since October 2011 she is a PhD candidate at the Royal Institute of Art (KKH) in Stockholm, with a practice based research titled Practices of the Essential In-between. Marc Neelen (1970, Heerlen, NL) received his degree in architecture at the Delft University of Technology in Delft, and currently holds the position of a visiting professor at the University of Sheffield, School of Architecture.
