NONACCEPTANCE/NEPRISTAJANJE

bilingual multimedia project

(book of interviews, CD-ROM, Web site), 2000

WWW (flash / HTML)

www.shockart.org/nepristajanje/

CD ROM and the accompanying book of interviews entitled “Nonacceptance” about the ongoing events, protests, media ban, appearance of new, urban music bands. “Nonacceptance” is a search for more ingenuousness, cordiality and the absence of verbal abuse. Life devaluation destroyed criteria and systems of values. We are being segregated and punished for not joining in with the current regime, or being critical of it. Nonacceptance is the basis of the concept of morality. Whether we will enter the era of open dictatorship, with people being arrested and persecuted in every possible manner, is left for us to see. That also inevitably leads to the system in which we make our own destinies. The only principle in the degree of responsibility is the degree of authority and the power to largely influence the destiny of others. “Nonacceptance” is the proof of the fact that we can fight for our opinions not only with emotions but arguments as well, thus wishing not to be passed over on account of the country we come from.

The answers of the interviewed made during the three months’ time of bombing, form an appendix to the book. In it lie answers to the questions of their partaking and responsibility in the events, of dilemma concerning patriotism as collective or individual feeling, of the fears of the times when anyone drinking Coca Cola might be accused of being a traitor. Audio section of the CD ROM includes 20 audio interviews.

The idea I had in mind was to introduce people that think differently from the ones officially representing us. To show, as one of the interviewed, historian Milan St. Protic, said, “That here exists that so called “Second Serbia”, which I would call the First Serbia. First in political sense, as well as in any other sense imaginable.”

Donor: KulturKontakt, Austria