Belgrade, November 9th, Centre for Cultural Decontamination Belgrade, 8pm

The appointment in Belgrade preceeds and connects with the symposium in Zagreb. Many of the Belgrade participants will hop on a train the day after the Belgrade appointment and travel the road to Zagreb to join the symposium there.

In a city torn between nationalist and europeanist sentiments, the appointment in Belgrade focuses squarely on the question of the nation, asking whether the polis is necessarily a physically bordered space, a community geograpgically defined that separates those who belong to those who are foreign to its constitution.

It will consist in three roundtables:

Urbanity and exclusion: in what ways are ethnic and class exclusions expressed in the urban fabric of the city of Belgrade?
Art as public activism: in what ways can art break down ethnic identities and open up spaces for political encounters independently of ethnicity or class?
public space and transnational politics: how can public space be understood independently of the nation, and independently of ethnicity?

Speakers to include: Sonja Lebos, Stephen Wright, Leonardo Kovacevic, Borka Pavicevic, Manja Ristik, Segolene Pruvot

During the conference video screenings will be presented by Emanuele Guidi. With works by: Luchezar Boyadjiev (Super! Super!, 2003); Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson (The Caregivers, 2008); J.Gallico/OsservatorioNomade/Stalker Berlin (Kurds on the Map, 2004); Aldo Giannotti & Stefano Giuriati (Carabinieri, Stazione Mobile, 2006-2007); Leopold Kessler (Neighbours, 2008); Bouchra Khalili (Straight Stories – Part 2: ANYA, 2008); Till Roeskens (Videocartographies : Aïda, Palestine, 2008); Hito Steyerl (Universal Embassy, 2004).