VIVISECTfest 02
The Travelling Festival on Human Rights – VIVISECTfest
Topic: My Enemies: Nationalism and Xenophobia
In 2006 and 2007, the programme of the "My Enemies: Nationalism and Xenophobia" Travelling Festival was implemented in co-operation with local partners in Belgrade, Kikinda, Novi Pazar, Ruma, Kula and Novi Bečej (Serbia); Mostar and Tuzla (B&H); Berlin (Germany).
Within the Travelling Festival on Human Rights – VIVISECTfest the following programmes were implemented:
Exhibition of photographs At the Beginning of the New Century by photojournalists from the dailies like "Dnevnik" and "Magyar Szò", taken between 2000 and 2006 and showing incidents like knocking down tombstones, graphitti expressing hatred and hooligan behaviour of the sports fans.
Reconstruction of Rona Haviv’s "Blood and Honey" exhibition of photographs titled Anno Domini 2002. The exhibition comprises 64 photographs by Ron Haviv which were exhibited in Novi Sad in September 2002, together with the comments written then by the visitors. The pages of the book VIVISECT, which includes Ron Haviv’s photographs and the related comments by the visitors written beside each exhibited photo, are also exhibited.
Exhibition of photographs by Tarik Samarah - Graffiti, comprising eight photographs which show the graphitti of the Dutch troops written on the walls of the Battery Manufacturing Plant in Potočari during their mandate in Srebrenica. The Royal Netherlands Troops were deployed within the UNPROFOR peacekeeping troops in Bosnia and Herzegovina, between 1993 and 1995, and were in charge of the Srebrenica protected zone.
Exhibition of applied posters on the topic My Enemies: Nationalism and Xenophobia organised in co-operation with the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. The exhibits are the works of the third year students of the Section for Graphic Communication, and the participants of the Tremafest ART camp held in Ruma.
Public debates to the topic of Speech of Hatred and Nationalism: Causes and Effects and the promotion of the publication of the same title, printed in Serbian, Hungarian and Albanian language. The public debates and creative workshops for making applied posters on the topic "My Enemies: Nationalism and Xenophobia" are organised with the aim of providing information to youth on the phenomena of the nationalism, xenophobia and speech of hatred to be able to recognise them in their own surrounding.
Film review within which the following films were screened: Rakesh Sharma – Final Solution, Pawel Pawlikowski – Serbian Epics, Ashvin Kumar – Little Terrorist, Elmir Jukić – A Frame for the Picture of My Homeland, Iris Elezi – Disposable Heroes, Janko Baljak – Vukovar – The Final Cut, Sašo Podgoršek – Divided States of America / Laibach 2004 Tour, Fade in – Zagreb Calls You / Direkt, Goran Dević – I Have Nothing Nice to Say to You, Oliver Sertić / Fade in – Croatia E(n)d-en on Earth, Helge Cramer – Amateurs and Generals, Jeanine Butler – Building Bridges, Bertram Verhaag – Blue Eyed, Željko Mirković – Muharem - Music, the Eyes of Life, Ylber Mehmedaliu, Edon Rizvanolli – Shuffle/Politics, Bullshit and Rock'n'Roll, Lode Desmet – Kosovo: Does Anyone Have a Plan?
Chronology of the Travelling VIVISECTfest in 2006 and 2007
Belgrade
October 16th-19th, 2006
Venue: Centre for Cultural Decontamination
Partners: Association of Women's Initiative (AŽIN) and the Centre for Cultural Decontamination
Media Sponsors: TV B92, Danas, TV Novi Sad, Dnevnik, Magyar Szò and Radio 021.
Mostar
November 2nd-5th, 2006
Venue: OKC Abrašević
Partner: OKC Abrašević
Media sponsor: "Dnevni list" daily
Kikinda
November 9th-12th, 2006
Venue: "Jovan Popović" National Library
Partners: "Jovan Popović" National Library
Media sponsors: Dnevnik, Kikindske novine and RTV VK
Berlin
November 18th-24th, 2006
Venue: Kunsthaus Tacheles, Neue Galerie
Partners: Balkan Black Box, Mobile Consulting Team Against the Right-Wing Extremism and Kunsthaus Tacheles
Tuzla
December 6th-8th, 2006
Venue: The Peace Flame House
Partners: Human Rights Office, Human Rights Film Festival – Over the Walls and the Peace Flame House
Novi Pazar
December 21st-24th, 2006
Venue: "Stevan Mokranjac" Music School
Partners: URBAN IN, the Youth Centre, and "Stevan Mokranjac" Music School
Ruma
March 27th-31st, 2007
Venue: The Youth Centre
Partners: Tremafest, the Town Theatre and the Youth Council of Ruma
Kula
May 31st-June 6th, 2007
Venue: premises of the LDP, SDU and SPO Municipal Boards
Partners: LPD and SDU Municipal Boards
Novi Bečej
June 1st-4th, 2007
Venue: CAKUM "Kuća Kuća II"
Partners: CAKUM – Centre for the affirmation of Culture and arts of the Young, "Kuća Kuća II", PAAD Group – Centre for Social and Cultural Exceptionality, the Novi Bečej Municipality
Donors
Implementation of the Travelling VIVISECTfest programme in Belgrade, Kikinda, Novi Pazar, Ruma, Kula, Novi Bečej, Mostar and Tuzla was supported by NED - National Endowment for Democracy.
Implementation of the Travelling VIVISECTfest programme in Berlin was supported by C. S. Mott Foundation and the German Embassy in Belgrade.