Interviews

Interviews
2006

For the exhibition 'Choose Choice' in the Brakke Grond, Amsterdam I developed the audiovisual installation 'History does not have a circular path; it's more like a spiral, and in each circle there is something repeating, but at the same time there is always progress.' The title is a quote from Svetlana, one of 20 interviewees that I questioned about their political conviction and their positions on important social questions. I conducted interviews with Dutch and Serbian teenagers between the ages of 17 and 19 who had never voted before; I selected 20 of these for this piece. The teenagers speak openly about voting, immigration, the European Union, and local issues like independence of Kosovo and immigrants problems in Holland. To accompany the audio-recorded interviews, I shot images of locations in Amsterdam (residential areas and squares mostly occupied by emigrants) and Belgrade (government buildings destroyed in the 1999 NATO campaign). I continued with this project by interviewing teenagers in Denmark and Belgium and the plan is to do the same in Kosovo and Turkey.