Hop(e) and lie (Odzaci, 2018)

Hop(e) and Lie, Perfomance/video (subtitle: Ko to kaže, ko to laže, Nada ne je mala- Who speaks, who lies, hope is not small”), Performance in public space, Odzaci, Serbia, Square of the post-German Catholic Church- built by Austro-Hungarian colonialists in 1755. “Long duration performance action; performed in the square of the abandoned in the 1990s Catholic Church in Odzaci where a funfair was set up. The performance referred to the history of the place and the expulsion of the “”non-Balkan”” community. It consisted of transforming and adapting verses of a Serbian nationalist song by changing the word – Serbia (resounding here as extreme nationalist) a Hope. The whole action was performed on a trampoline and activated the local community. The action and video were created with the support and patronage of the Ministry of Culture of Serbia/ IMAF 2018