There were some different moments at different times, we gonna
bring together now. This is part of work in progress. Now, to set a mark, this image from
"Modern Times",
a movie Charles Chaplin did in 1936:
You got an idea, what this image is about? You might dislike the word, but of
course it is about transition. Based on laughter. I need this laughter to override that
ambient noise, coming out as a talking over east-west-dialogue. Huh! What an attitude! We
never were separated, just disturbed. In fact I am balkan boy more than anything else.
What the hell are 50 years of cold war compared to 500 years interchange on the roads
between Vienna and Istanbul?
Martin Krusche
We had a fine project last year, called "next code: love". Mirjana
Selakov has been chief curator. Sasa Janjic from "Remont" was our man in
Beograd.
So we were looking at the area around a line between the points Vienna,
Beograd and Istanbul, working on some aspects of this "cultural space", where a
lot of inputs came from, making Europe what it is today.
Veronica Kaup-Hasler, director of the festival "steirischer
herbst", and her crew agreed to our concept, so we had a collaboration that is to be
continued now.
From the left: Veronica Kaup-Hasler (Director), Dragica Katanic (specialist in German
Studies) and Sonja Asanovic-Todorovic (Consul General of Serbia) at the opening of our event in autumn
2007.
Well, "next code: exit" means exiting what? Wherfrom?
We will show you. Step by step.
There was a moment in Beograd, some years ago, very important to me. In
the year 2004 Dragan Protic from group "kart" gave me strong impressions
about their work with women, who faced their traumas after the war of secession in a very
certain way.
by Embroidery. (See "Nothing will swallow me" as part of
"The Towers Of Zemun": [link]!)
I Think, we will resume this idea. Here is another example, saying: "Modern hubbie
will cook dinner for her. Modern wife will read novels to him".