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The team of the
MREŽA production group visited
Priština within the project "Serbia
and Kosovo: Intercultural
Icebreakers", organized for five
years by the Helsinki Committee for
Human Rights in Serbia, with the
support of the Embassy of the
Federal Republic of Germany in
Belgrade.
Journalist Boban
Trajković made a story about his
experience and contemporary Kosovo
art scene. This story comes at a
time when political dialogue between
Belgrade and Priština is almost
completely suspended and relations
are burdened with the behavior of
elites.
The article was
broadcast on the second program of
Radio Television of Serbia, a public
service broadcaster, which is
significant given the share of the
viewership of this television. One
of the reasons why the project
"Serbia and Kosovo: Intercultural
Icebreakers" exists is precisely the
idea of bringing the two societies
closer together and getting to know
each other through art. The
presentation of the Kosovo art scene
to a wider audience in Serbia shows
a different image of Kosovo, which
is rare in the media.
Boban Trajković
presented the Philharmonic from
Pristina, their plans and work. He
attended the exams of directing
students at the Academy of Arts and
had the opportunity to see their
first student achievements and talk
with their professor Ismet Sijarin.
He presented the work of the
Academy, and shared the interesting
fact that they use a combination of
Zagreb and Belgrade film schools.
His film Cold November will also be
screened in Serbia, and some of the
scenes were shot in Belgrade. Ismet
Sijarin drew attention to the ban on
co-production of Serbia and Kosovo
and that that must be changed.
In an interview
with Jeton Nezir, whose view of art
goes beyond that of an official
institutional one, both the
independent and alternative cultural
scene and the Multimedia Center were
presented. This Center uses a direct
language, a politically incorrect
approach, and their plays have
played their shows in many places in
Serbia. The Center is also the
organizer of the POLIP festival,
which was the first meeting place
for Serbian and Kosovo writers after
war.
One of the places
shown is TERMOKISS which is a
remodeled hall of the city heating
plant. Activists have set up an
abandoned building and created a
cultural center that is independent,
alternative and based on the
involvement of the local community
and the neighborhood. It is
interesting that one of the
participants of the previous
generations of the project "Serbia
and Kosovo: Intercultural
Icebreakers", was inspired when
visiting the TERMOKISS to launch a
similar cultural center in Novi Sad.
The Serbian
Cultural Center, which opened in the
old part of Priština a year ago, has
had several activities, despite
misunderstandings of both Pristina
and Belgrade institutions.
You can see these
and other stories in the attachment
“KOSOVO, the art scene” on the PG
MREŽA website:
https://mreza.rs/kosovo-umetnicka-scena/
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