Tuesday 03.03
20:00

Screening of the documentary movie
The State of Exception Proved to be the Rule, by Eduard Freudmann and Jelena Radić.

On February 7th 2008 the opening of the exhibition entitled “Exception – Contemporary Art Scene From Prishtina” presenting artworks by Albanian artists from Kosovo in the ‘Kontekst Galerija’ Belgrade was prevented by a clerical-fascist organization, violent football hooligans and the Serbian police. The incident was accompanied by a hysterical infamous campaign in the Serbian media and marks another milestone in the continual state of exceptions in the Serbian public space after the Milošević regime was overthrown in 2000. It became apparent in 2001 when Belgrade’s first Gay Pride Day was brutally suppressed. In both events the realization was impossible due to lack of safety.

Instead of particularizing and thereby historicizing an event by examining it as an isolated phenomenon, the film aims to clearly point out the political and theoretical context in which it is implanted. Therefore it connects the incidents in Kontekst Galerija with the national and international political situation, the production of public opinion by media in Serbia and a theoretical analysis and interpretation of the situation.

Serbia 2008, 84 min., Serbian with English subtitles