Livnica pesama/Foundry of Poems
is large-scale multimedia installation, made of video projections and multichannel sound. It takes abandoned industrial space and turns it into immersive sensory experience, inviting the audience to re-inhabit this hybrid space by moving freely through the installation.
It is part of a larger research and PhD project by Deana Petrovic. The installation consists of 6 large-format projections and four-channel sound. Video footage comes from the television, museum and film archives, mainly showing the scenes from the old Yugoslav factories, construction sites and the youth work actions. 
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The main actors of the videos are workers-poets. Their poetry deals with the deep existentialist questions of working-class life and the position of the worker as individual in the production chain. This work aims to create an encompassing sensory experience, not as an effect, but as an  attempt to emphasize the lyrical quality of the spoken text and old television footage with the use of digital technology. It aims at answering the following questions: How do we change the perception of the space by using the new technologies while referring to its original context; how far does the integration of digital content into physical space can go and what techniques could be used?

​​​To create a hybrid space, we are using a system for spatial (mapped) video projection and 4-channel sound system. Digital media in this case, does not exclude the physical space and does not isolate the user by transferring him/her to another, alternative space (as it is the case with virtual reality). In a hybrid space like this, digital media intertwines with the physical space creating an amalgamate that has a purpose to highlight the original context of the space and at the same time to bring additional, new layers to it.
This project is made with the help of Serbian National Television Archive,
Museum of Yugoslavia and Filmske Novosti
IDEA
Embedding digital content into an abandoned industrial space act that looks at the end of modernism and the beginning of the digital age. The created digital image tries to unite the emotions, ideas and thinking of workers in relation to their work. It tries to answer questions like: how worker sees a factory and a machine, what he thinks of collective work, about common power.
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PERCEPTION OF SPACE
In this PhD art project, the relationship of digital content and physical space creates a new hybrid space in which coexisting digital and analogue, and in terms of perception, they create an entirely new hybrid space. Digital content does not exclude physical space, i.e. does not isolate the user and does not transfer it to another space, as is the case with virtual reality, but digital content interweaves and blends with the physical space, thus creating a new, hybrid, digital-physical space, as a new platform for artistic action .
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THE AIM
The installation aims to create a comprehensive sensory experience, but not as an effect, but as an opportunity to amplify the lyrical quality of the text (speech of workers and workers), digitized television recordings from the archives, and the original sound composed for installation. By investigating the boundaries of space, i.e. hybrids space , a contribution to the digital narrative in the public space is provided. Public space in this way becomes suitable for digital art in an innovative, different way, and opens up new possibilities of artistic activity. The project attempts to answer the question of how much our perception of the public space has changed by the arrival of new technologies, and to what extent it is possible to integrate digital content into a physical public space, and which techniques.

AUTHOR:
Deana Petrovic
COMPOSER: 
Svetlana Maraš
​YEAR OF REALIZATION:
2017
VENUE:
Warehouse, Port of Belgrade (Hangar Luke Beograd)
DURATION:
16 min, loop
MUSIC:
Svetlana Maras
FOOTAGE:
Radio-Television of Serbia, Department of historiography Trezor, Archive "Filmske novosti",
​ Museum of Yugoslavia