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We’ve got the
time!
A joint
exhibition by young artists from
Serbia and Kosovo
... February
2018
Helsinki Committee
for Human Rights in Serbia has
organized the multimedia exhibition
by young artists from Serbia and
Kosovo, between February 14 and 17,
2018 at the Cultural Center Parobrod
in Belgrade.
The exhibition is
organized within our program “Serbia
and Kosovo: Intercultural
Icebreakers”, which connects young
artists, academics, students,
professionals in media and other
participants of public and cultural
life in order to create a common
ground for shared work and
empowerment for further joint
cooperation.
We launched the
program at the same time the
Brussels Dialogue between Kosovo and
Serbia started, aiming to help the
efforts towards reconciliation and
renewed cooperation between our two
societies. Through our program,
which is now entering its fourth
year of existence, hundreds of young
people from Kosovo and Serbia have
been breaking the existing
stereotypes of each other through
joint creative work and the creation
of a network of cooperation and
friendship, which, besides artistic
community, also includes members of
the academic, media and public
institutions.
What is
particularly encouraging is that
after participating in our program,
these young people, who are the
future of our societies, have
remained closely tied in both
friendly and professional manner,
spreading the positive trends of
cooperation and reconciliation among
other members of their generation in
Kosovo and Serbia.
Our ambition is to
continue to provide them the support
they need so they can continue with
the hard, but necessary, work of
constructing a better future and
relations not only between Kosovo
and Serbia, but within the entire
region. We are proud of their
original and innovative work.
Within our
program, over the past four years,
we have organized numerous
exhibitions, festivals, forums,
concerts and educational exchanges.
We also began cooperating with
institutions such are the University
of Belgrade and the University of
Prishtina.
We see these
efforts as an important addition to
the official dialogue between
Belgrade and Prishtina, for which we
hope will achieve positive results.
At the same time, we are aware that
there are other ways to contribute
to the progress in relations and the
creation of a better future for all
of us, and we see our program as
part of these efforts and as an
important support for official
dialogue between the two countries.
The exhibition
aimed to offer the opportunity to
its authors and the audience to
depart from the spiral of negative
political, cultural, institutional
and media influences with regard to
relations between Serbs and
Albanians.
Our team of young,
emerging artists from Kosovo and
Serbia invited you to witness their
multimedia artistic expressions that
serve as proof of the reclamation of
their right to reconciliation and
their strong intention to create a
common culture of peace and
friendship between our two
societies.
Their works of art
in all of their various forms, among
other things, aimed to deconstruct
the conventional images of “The
Other” and to show how easy it is to
break free from the imposed
discourse that doesn’t contribute to
reconciliation and cooperation among
young people from both societies who
share the same dreams, hopes and
problems.
By entering this
place where the fruits of their
joint work were on display, the
audience contributed to the
"possibility of creating a dialogue"
as well as empowering its
beneficial, healing effects for our
societies.
Simultaneously, we
hope that the works of art exhibited
will help everyone in overcoming the
(un)conscious bias since our social
realities still consider “The Other”
as a foe, claiming that the time has
pass for ever being friends again.
We, as members of
young generations, couldn’t disagree
more and want to inform you that we
have got the time to get to know
each other better – and more
importantly – to live and work in
piece, never forgetting the past,
but with strong dedication to
building a brighter future for all.
Participants:
Teodora Savić, Shpat Maloku, Vana
Filipovski, Eni Pirana, Ana
Novaković, Azem Deliu, Katarina
Ilišković, Flutur Mustafa, Ivan
Dinić, Ilma Kitivojević
Exhibition
featured also:
the animated
film "Q&A" directed by Nebojša
Petrović, Izabela Mašić and Demir
Mekić; Starring: Rade Obradović,
Rajmonda Ahmetaj, Shqipe Gashi;
and promotion
of a booklet with the essays, poems
and short pieces by the participants
about the personal changes they
experienced during the encounter and
the joint creative work with “The
Others.”
The exhibition is
part of the program "Serbia and
Kosovo: Intercultural Icebreakers"
implemented by the Helsinki
Committee for Human Rights in
Serbia. The program started in 2014,
and we hope to keep it running for
the foreseeable future with the help
of our numerous partners.
In 2017-2018 the
program was supported by Robert
Bosch Stiftung GmbH.
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