The Catalogue of the Second Edition of the VIVISECTfest

The Catalogue of the Second Edition of the Festival on Human Rights – VIVISECTfest is dedicated to the topic "My Enemies: Nationalism and Xenophobia" and is printed in Serbian and English.

Printing of the Catalogue of the Second Edition of the Festival on Human Rights – VIVISECTfest was supported by NED - National Endowment for Democracy.

The Catalogue deals with the festival program whose aim is to foster awareness of the dangers of the language of hatred, nationalism and xenophobia on the regional and global level. It comprises the following thematic entities:

1. The exhibition of photographs At the Beginning of the New Century includes 59 photographs shot between 2000 and 2006, which show the incidents of demolishing tombstones, graffiti of hatred and hooligan behavior of sports fans.
Authors of the photographs are photojournalists from the dailies like Dnevnik and Magyar Szò: Filip Bakić, Aleksandra Erski, Radivoje Hadžić, Đorđe Komlenski, Branislav Lučić, Nikola Stojanović, Čila David, Aleksandar Jovanović, Silard Kovač, Jozef Gergely and Andraš Otoš.

2. State of Things/Situation offers a chronological review of the events between 2000 and 2006 which, in a way, provoked a conflict in the society or a public debate with the elements of the language of hatred, and which were the cause or the consequence of verbal or physical incidents in the social or political life in Serbia.

3. Reconstruction of the exhibition of photographs by Ron Haviv, "Blood and Honey", titled Anno domini 2002, comprises 64 photographs by Ron Haviv which were exhibited in Novi Sad, in September 2002 together with the comments written beside the photographs by the visitors. The pages of the book VIVISECT, in which Ron Haviv’s photographs and related comments written on blank papers beside the photographs were published, were also exhibited.

4. Documents of War – Ron Haviv’s reminiscences of the beginning of the war in the former Yugoslavia and his work as war photojournalist between 1991 and 2001. In the beginning, his task was to shoot photographs for the news. He wanted to draw public attention to the situation, to help people in reaching decisions which would bring change. Regretfully, true change has never occurred. Today, Ron Haviv hopes that his work represents a document of war. His photographs are accusing those who stood on the sidelines and did nothing while thousands of people were being killed and million others became refugees.

5. Vivisect, Vivisection – This part offers key information on the reactions provoked by Ron Haviv's exhibition "Blood and Honey" in Novi Sad in 2002.

6. The exhibition of photographs by Tarik Samarah Graffiti comprises eight photographs shot in December 2002 in Potočari. In the photographs are graffiti written by the Dutch soldiers on the walls of a plant during their mandate in Srebrenica. The troops of the Dutch Royal Army were, within UNPROFOR - UN peace keeping forces, deployed in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1993 and 1995, responsible for the safety of the protected zone of Srebrenica.

7. Film Review dedicated to the topic "My Enemies: Nationalism and Xenophobia": Pawel Pawlikowski - Serbian Epics; Janko Baljak - Vukovar – Final Cut; Goran Dević - I Don't Have Anything Nice to Tell You; Elmir Jukić - A Frame for the Picture of My Homeland; Helge Cramer - Amateurs and the General; Lode Desmet - Kosovo: Does Anyone Have a Plan?; Iris Elezi - Disposable Heroes; Jeanine Butler - Building Bridges; Bertram Verhaag – Blue Eyed; Rakesh Sharma – Final Solution; Ashvin Kumar - Little Terrorist; Želimir Žilnik - Second generation, Kenedi Returns Home; Where has Kenedi been for Two Years?; Europe Next Door; Željko Mirković - Muharem - Music, the Eyes of Life; Oliver Sertić - Croatia E(n)d-en on Earth; Hrvoje Mabić / Fade in - Zagreb Calls You; Ylber Mehmedaliu, Edon Rizvanolli - Shuflle – Politics, Bullshit and Rock'n'roll; Sašo Podgoršek - Divided States of America / Laibach 2004 Tour

The film review also includes 11 films made within the project Mapping of the Right-Wing Extremism, whose aim was to gather young people from Serbia in a fight against nationalism and xenophobia. Film makers are: Filip Markovinović, Mirjana Batinić, Nenad Mikalački, Mladen Marinkov, Lidija Antonić, Mirjana Betinić, Miroslav Jović, Boško Prostran, Bob Milošević, Vladimir Sojat and Milica Lapčević. The project was in 2005 jointly realized by: Multimedia Center kuda.org; Socijalna medija, Alternative Cultural Organization, Kino Klub Novi Sad, Democratic Youth of Brandenburg, and D-A-S-H (European network of young people fighting against xenophobia).

8. Chronology of the Traveling Festival on Human Rights – VIVISECTfest organized in 2006 and 2007 in Belgrade, Mostar, Kikinda, Berlin, Novi Pazar and Ruma.

9. Friends and Donors of VIVISECTfest in 2006.

 

Impresum

Publication Editor-in-Chief: Marija Gajicki
Assistant Editor: Smiljka Vukelić
Proofreading in Serbian Language: Silvija Čamber
Translation into English and Proofreading: Nataša Mioković and Jelena Milojković
Design: Peter Gregson
Printed by: ArtPrint – Novi Sad