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We’ve got time: Peacebuilding through the arts
in Kosovo and Serbia
Vana Filipovski,
peaceagency.org * November 5th, 2019
From whichever side one observes them, Kosovo-Serbia
relations seem like a never-ending story. While
social and political clashes in recent years have
hampered any attempted compromise, some
small, but very valuable programmes seem to prove
the opposite.
This article will shed light on “Serbia and Kosovo:
Intercultural Icebreakers,” a programme that uses
arts to improve tensions
between the two sides. This initiative has proven to
be highly
effective to foster positive perceptions and to
contribute to
reconciliation and peacebuilding. Intercultural
Icebreakers... ...
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Sloboda 700K
August 22, 2019
The work that has definitely attracted the most
attention of visitors to the Belgrade and Novi Sad
exhibition "Stories from the Vacuum Cleaner" created
within the project "Serbia and Kosovo:Intercultural
Icebreakers" is
the work "Freedom 700K" by artist
Pajtim Paša from Peći. In fact, the work is
so-called "ready made art" and it is
a
Freedom vacuum cleaner from
čačak, a 700K model that
was present in most households in Yugoslavia.
Even
today, many households use
it, and the machine works flawlessly. Pajtim
borrowed the vacuum cleaner from his aunt. Pajtim
Paša told the story of a machine and a factory that
was bombed in 1999... ...
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