konjic

Pravdoliub Ivanov: Behold

Basim Madgy: Our Prehistoric Fate

service tunnel leading to main bunker

Iaona Nemes: Monthly Evaluations (06.09.2006) detail, in Tito's bedroom, containing the bunker's only double bed.

Mladen Miljanovic: Today I Became A Real Artist

Excavated between the 1950s and the late 70s, the nuclear bunker near Konjic in Bosnia is the setting for a new contemporary art biennial, called Time Machine. The name is appropriate. The bunker was designed for President Tito and 350 of his military and political elite to survive for six months in the event of a nuclear attack from the USSR and other Eastern Bloc countries, after Yugoslavia was expelled the Cominform in 1948. The bunker, known as ARK (Atomska Ratna Komanda, or Atomic War Command) contains hundred of rooms, in which fixtures and fittings are perfectly preserved. Attending the opening of the Biennial on May 27, amid the politicians, the media and of course the artists, were also the few coachloads of local people , who up till recently will not have had the chance to visit the bunker, because it's still in the hands of the Bosnian army. I'm working on a radio documentary about the event, to be broadcast on July 14, 2011, on BBC Radio 4.