Coming back to Beograd did not only mean to join the next session with the guys from the "collective actions", it was also about "treci beograd" becoming part of the "šok alijansa". (At the gallery)

There is this special place at the banks of the river Danube. A private gallery as home and site of "treci beograd". There is a lot of context our collaboration is based on, not only in questions of what art is about, also about the best practice and the strategies how to work on the tasks we found and how to make a living as an artist.

Spending the first days by the Danube, my thoughts and some debates went around Duchamp and Beuys, about the strong impact these guys had on the processes I came along as an artist. No more romantic attitudes. A profession. And some ideas, what responsibility means.

Right now this is no place for recreation, no destination, tourists would go for. It is a working area. And if I look across the water, I see factories, I see ships go by, freightliners. A good place to start something.

A shuttered terrain, good to leave some signs, to set some steps. Pancevo is near, where the Nato did some heavy bombing during the last war. They hit chemical industry, poisening the area for years. This symbolical context of overcoming some poison...

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