Hello, everybody,
welcome to this unique event of counting down till the Last Day of Being Serbian. Does it sound familiar? Misterious? Dangerous? Are you ready for a great adventure? We have 72 hours to go, so let's start!
Our counting starts with the question no1 - what the word Serbian means to you? How would you describe a Serb? If you think you'll jump into the terrible net of cliches, don't mind - let's get rid of the cliches in the very beginning, so that we are free to go on!
About Me
- Sanja Mitrovic
- Sanja Mitrovic is theatre director and performer born in Yugoslavia, based in Amsterdam. She is a founder and artistic director of Stand Up Tall Productions (2009). In 2010 Mitrovic was awarded the prestigious Dutch BNG Nieuwe Theatermakers Prijs for the best young director for her production “Will You Ever Be Happy Again?” which is touring Europe to critical acclaim since 2008 (selected among five best performances of the 2009/10 season by magazine TIN). Mitrović is interested in the notion of documentary in theatre and its relation to the social, political and cultural realities of our times. Her performances are structured around the idea of montage combining theatre, performance, dance and visual arts. As documentary material she often uses personal stories and testimonies which she contrasts with official historical accounts. The form resulting from such a combination she terms a “docu-tale”. Permeated with subtle humour and sharp analysis, her works are marked by an urgency to explore the influence of the collective processes as well as important political and social issues on the private lives.
9 comments:
Serbs are often presented as bad, bad, bad, especially in the movies. How do you fight against the prejudaces?
Being Serbian is living here and wanting to be somewhere else.
When I think of being Serbian, the first thing that comes on my mind is the fact that I don't breed normally for last 15 years. I use maybe 15% of my capacity... Once, in October of 2000 i started to breed normally but it didn't last long. I like ppl here, i like Serbian landscape, like smell of this air...but I simply can't breed. I don't wanna sound pathetic, I am not unhappy here, I am not ashamed of what I am...I am just tired...very tired.
Someone should stop Gabi...
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so a countdown... how does that feel for you? afraid to lose something? your rights as a serb... but do you need your rights in order to be serbian? i mean literally now?
anyway i understand the strange feeling that it must bring, losing your national identity, imagine what a paper can do! but is it only a piece of paper, it is until it's taking away from you and it's not so much the piece of paper it's what it means to us. maybe you could think of some ritual to ease the loss....
the word serbian could mean being born/raised in serbia, having roots over there, having a past bigger than yourself, having to deal with those who question this bigger past. anyway, i am just a foreigner so... last day of being serbian sounds different: do you think you're going to lose your roots? no just just your right as a serb, do you care, do you feel concerned about life over there?
A serbian looks like ????? a lot of hair!!! lot of teeth!!!
I can imagine that brings a certian uneasy feeling, betraying one part of yourself, but I agree with BLABLA - it is indeed how we feel inside. I can say "it is just a piece of paper" as well, but probably THAT paper makes you think more about your roots, who you are, where you come from and even if you don't think about it on a daily basis, all these questions might just appear all of a sudden.
Maybe the Last Day Of Being Serbian is about being afraid of the decision that has been made. And the possibility of forgetting how "it really feels to be Serbian", which again poses a question: "Do we ever really feel our national identity and complete commitment to the same?".
Last Day Of Being Serbian feels bit like a mediation upon one's own life choices...
Isn't the countdown a sort of ritual? Countdown meditation. (Sorry for missing t in the previous comment, I ment - meditation).
Being Serbian means: person with Serbian passport and speaking Serbian language as mother tongue...
also, some people call themselves Serbs - a kind of subjective, political, emotional feeling/thinking or memory
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