AW: [syndicate] fwd: EXCEPTION, EXHIBITION attacked by violent nationalists IN BELGRADE

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Thanx for phallogression!!!:))

In fact, the preoccupation with national identity avoids the addressing of immense social-economic problems within the societies of Serbia and Kosovo, which are neglected by politicians and public authorities to an inexcusable extend. The true victims of the fight between “national identities” are the ones “without defined identity”, refugees without papers or without the right kind of papers, living in barracks, camps, favelas or in the woods, displaced from their homes, expelled from the European Union, deprived of their right to exist. 
Since 1st January 2008 the readmission treaty between EU and Serbia is in force and we expect more than 1.5 Million people who are now living “illegally” in EU countries to be deported to Serbia and Kosovo.
The preoccupation with national identity in contemporary art is fostered explicitly within the rhetoric of cultural identity and cultural diversity of European cultural policies to influence “opinion makers” and is the continuation of nationalist politics on a more sophisticated level. 



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claudia westermann schrieb:
>> Dear Claudia, I really don't know, I was not there. Fact is thet, as I 
>> head 
>> in news, two people entered the gallery before the opening and thorned the
> 
>> Jashari's image in two. They did not touch anything else.
> 
> I found this video on youtube
> unfortunately I do not understand anything
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUMgFLx6w_Y
> 
> .. to me
> this looks like too many policemen against
> two people
> 
> kind of strange - no?
> 
> 
> 
> Best,
> 
> Claudia
> 
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Sympa Owner [mailto:sympa at eglin.copyleft.no] Im Auftrag von Andrej
> Tisma
> Gesendet: Samstag, 09. Februar 2008 15:25
> An: syndicate at anart.no
> Betreff: Re: [syndicate] fwd: EXCEPTION, EXHIBITION attacked by violent
> nationalists IN BELGRADE
> 
> 
>> Looking through the catalogue
>> I can't help but think that the fact that 'Adem Jashari' was depicted may
>> have served just as an excuse for the protest in order to prevent the
>> opening of this exhibition for other reasons (not officially mentioned).
> 
> Dear Claudia, I really don't know, I was not there. Fact is thet, as I head 
> in news, two people entered the gallery before the opening and thorned the 
> Jashari's image in two. They did not touch anything else.
> 
> 
>> It
>> seems to me that some other works are much more 'dangerous' in a way to a
>> nationalistic viewpoint.
> 
> It is nice to hear on this list that Albanians also can be "nationalistic" 
> (actually they are all the time, since 80s), but it is always forgiven to 
> them. Obviously some people in Belgrade can not forgive. There are many 
> victims of Albanian terror living now here in Serbia as refugees, expelled 
> from Kosovo. People on this list and curators must be aware of that fact. I 
> hope I am not a chauvinist if I tell facts.
> 
> Andrej 
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