In dialects of areas noth-west from Zadar, the meaning of Ardura is the sea full of planktons. In the night, when you pass your hand through the surface of the sea, there are silver whirls beginning to shine, and it is told among the fishermen’s stories of old that they can cause stuperfaction and lunacy.

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Ardura project consists of interactive installation (authors Jospi Zanki and Matija Zdunić), the series of drawings (pupils of School of applied arts and design under the mentorship of Bojana Vukojević), sound installation (author Marko Brkljačić) and video work (authors Aleksandar Tomas and Laura Plišo).

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The installation will be set at the twilight of May 20th, 2017. and it will take place on the cliff under the fort of Ljubljana, right next to the ruins of a church, on the nature formed plateau. It consists of a horn laid on the ground, the empty construction barrel and the lit fire.

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The horn symbolizes the signalization used by the fishermen on the islands of Kornati, the barrel symbolizes the message set forth to those who are lost in the fog (it was used by the fishermen in Privlaka area), while the fire symbolizes the return to the island (used in the bays near Preko on island Ugljan). These three objects set on the cliff next to the famous templar fort which the inhabitants mysteriously disappeared from right at the beginning of Ottoman invasion, open the possibility of redefining the fishermen tradition as well as traces of history, starting from Baudrillard’s concept of “In order for ethnology to live, its object must die”.