{"id":86711,"date":"2023-02-24T16:31:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T15:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kosovotwopointzero.com\/?p=86711"},"modified":"2024-02-07T16:22:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T15:22:36","slug":"you-cannot-live-on-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.kosovotwopointzero.com\/en\/you-cannot-live-on-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"You can(not) live on memories"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The archival project “They Live” documents student dorm life across former Yugoslavia.<\/b><\/h4>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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“In a city along a cold river \/ it doesn’t matter which \/ where the streets fade off in fog \/ stands the student dorm.” These lyrics come from <\/span>An A in Camaraderie<\/span><\/a> (\u201cDesetka iz drugarstva\u201d), an ode to living life to the fullest in student dormitories. The author Miladin \u0160obi\u0107, a legendary singer-songwriter from Nik\u0161i\u0107, Montenegro, is known across former Yugoslavia as the poet laureate of dorms. His finding inspiration in student life is no isolated case, as demonstrated by many others’ experience across time.<\/span><\/p>

For example, Mijodrag Kujo Novovi\u0107 is very much fond of the numbers 149, 71, 102, 426 and 314. These were the numbers of the dorm rooms he stayed in during his mechanical engineering studies in Podgorica.<\/span><\/p>

\u201cEven if I was to live my life again, nowhere else would I be able to find the cheer and carefreeness I felt in my dorm. It was a one-of-a-kind school of life where we all became the people we are now,\u201d he said, recalling that part of his life with a bittersweet smile.<\/span><\/p>

Student dorm life is a special phenomenon. Regardless of other social or political developments, living in a student dorm means living your life in miniature, an experience always to be retold, a collectively built experience.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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In front of the new student dorms (Podgorica, 1975\u20141985). Photo: Kujo Novovi\u0107.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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For Novovi\u0107, a native of Pljevlja who began his studies in 1975, Podgorica (or Titograd, as it was then called) was a real metropolis and moving there was a real shock.<\/span><\/p>

\u201cWe had this wonderful professor, Vuko Bezarevi\u0107, who taught us about what to expect in a bigger city; he held those classes out of love. He started from the basics \u2014 first, he taught us how to cross the road, given that Pljevlja didn’t have any traffic lights,\u201d Novovi\u0107 said.<\/span><\/p>

\u201cAnother thing that had a great impact on me was that my father used to be quite strict; I\u2019m still a little scared of him although he passed away,” he said.\u00a0 “After freeing myself from the constraints that marked my early youth, I went all devil-may-care.”<\/span><\/p>

It\u2019s these types of stories that the international exhibition and research project \u201cThey Live: Student lives through context-based art practices\u201d explores. Led by several public institutions, universities and non-governmental organizations from Montenegro, Serbia, Croatia and Spain, the project has collected photographs, testimonies and memories about generations of students\u2019 lives in the student dormitories.<\/span><\/p>

One of the projects\u2019 interviewees was Srpko Le\u0161tari\u0107 from Belgrade, a member of the first generation of students who pursued their studies in Belgrade University\u2019s Faculty of Political Sciences, founded in 1966. Later he took up Arabic studies. Le\u0161tari\u0107 lived in a number of dorms, including the now famous Studentski grad \u2014 more commonly known as \u201cStudenjak.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

\u201cIf you ask me, student life is the most precious stage in any person\u2019s life. Over the course of their studies, young people are given various tasks, which enables them to learn and gain experience. In spite of being hungry and thirsty, doing manual labor, having no money and struggling with bad public transportation in the city, university years are so valuable and everyone holds them dear,\u201d Le\u0161tari\u0107 said.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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However, he said that some people had trouble adapting to this new stage of life though.<\/span><\/p>

\u201cA lot of my fellow students were struggling. They ate poorly and managed their finances poorly. some would often splurge all their pocket money on food or booze in one day. \u2018Can you lend me 100 dinars? I ran out of smokes\u2019 became an iconic question,” Le\u0161tari\u0107 said.<\/span><\/p>

They live<\/b><\/p>

The project \u201cThey Live\u201d explores student lives from World War II up to the present, examining the everyday reality of dorm life, cultural habits, free time, relationships, gender relations among students and their participation in social and political currents.<\/span><\/p>

Ongoing since September 2020, it is a collaborative project run by the Belgrade-based Student City Cultural Center alongside the Montenegrin Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA), the International Center for Archival Research: ICARUS from Zagreb, the Rijeka Academy of Applied Arts and the Madrid Rey Juan Carlos Universidad Faculty of Audiovisual Communication. The Berlin Art University Institute for Art in Context and the Belgrade Center for Public History are affiliated partners. The project runs through October 2023.<\/span><\/p>

Coordinator Milena Prelevi\u0107 from ICA explained that the idea sprang from a smaller project that the Student City in Belgrade created titled \u201cA Portrait of Studenjak.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Hanging out in the dorm (Podgorica, 1981\u20141987). Photo: Sadija Hod\u017ei\u0107.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Friends (Podgorica, 1981\u20141987). Photo: Sadija Hod\u017ei\u0107.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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\u201cIt was an exhibition of photos contributed by former and current Belgrade dorm residents. It came to fruition through a photography workshop titled \u2018Izvan okvira\u2019 [\u2018Outside the Box\u2019] and the Student City Cultural Center\u2019s photo archive, coupled with support from the people who stayed at Studenjak any given point between the 1950s and today,\u201d Prelevi\u0107 said.<\/span><\/p>

Due to a large turnout and positive response of the audience, the organizers decided to take the project to a new level. The idea was for the partner countries to set up and digitalize their own student archives, generate discussions on the topic and create guidelines on how to further develop student audiences.<\/span><\/p>

Lorenzo Javier Torres Hortelano explained how Madrid took interest in this seemingly regional story.<\/span><\/p>

\u201cWhen I saw the call for \u2018They Live\u2019 and read about how it would integrate [art and photography], it piqued my interest, so I contacted the people in Belgrade who\u2019re in charge of promotion, Maida Gruden and Andrija Stojanovi\u0107,\u201d he said, \u201cand we were quick to get to work.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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A courtyard get-together (Belgrade, 1968). Photo: Courtesy of Radmila \u0110ur\u0111evi\u0107.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Ivana Bo\u0161kovi\u0107 from Zagreb also took part in the project. As a student of archival studies, she was tasked with collecting materials, including photographs coming in from the former and current residents of Zagreb student dorms. \u201cThey Live\u201d is also close to her heart because she lived in the Stjepan Radi\u0107 Student Dorm in Zagreb over the course of her studies.<\/span><\/p>

\u201cI have a personal connection with that dorm. This project offered me a glimpse into how significant and impactful campus life actually is. I had such a nice time living in the dorm, so now I\u2019m able to reflect on it,\u201d Bo\u0161kovi\u0107 said.<\/span><\/p>

Students as the vanguard?<\/b><\/p>

Through cooperation with current and former university students, the goal was to elicit a wide variety of responses to the question of what it means to be a student throughout history.<\/span><\/p>

\u201cStudents have always been the avant-garde, pioneering change,” said Novovi\u0107, though he feels this has changed in recent generations.<\/span><\/p>

There have been some student protests in Montenegro in the last two decades \u2014 some of which proved to be successful \u2014 but Milena Prelevi\u0107 said that many students interviewed for the project noted a lack of participation and engagement themselves, as well as a lack of confidence among the wider student population.<\/span><\/p>

\u201cWhen it comes to university students, the activities organized as part of our project \u2014 including workshops, curated exhibits and exhibition tours \u2014 aimed to spark their interest in examining student life in Podgorica while challenging their role in today\u2019s context. Most of their feedback revolved around the conclusion that students are now overwhelmingly apathetic and unaware of their role and power,\u201d Prelevi\u0107 said.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Party (Podgorica, 1975\u20141985). Photo: Kujo Novovi\u0107.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Speech (Podgorica, 1975\u20141985). Photo: Kujo Novovi\u0107.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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The most momentous student protests in recent history were in 1968. Le\u0161tari\u0107 remembers the Belgrade protests of that time very well, but he is skeptical of the impact student protesters made.<\/span><\/p>

\u201cWorldwide, 1968 was a year marked not only by student rebellions, but also by the Vietnam War and related bloody demonstrations. Yugoslavia was no exception \u2014 blood was spilled, but no one talked about it. Few people mention it even nowadays; even though June 1968 is the subject of a large body of literature that contains a lot of things, but no mention of crackdowns,\u201d Le\u0161tari\u0107 said.<\/span><\/p>

Student protests and constant clashes with the police lasted for seven days before Josip Broz Tito made a public announcement. Speaking on television, he confirmed that the students were right, and not the government.<\/span><\/p>

\u201cIt was all sugar-coated so as to actually crack down on students and their demonstrations,\u201d Le\u0161tari\u0107 said, explaining that from today’s perspective it is clear that it was a demagogic move, and that the students’ demands were mostly neglected.<\/span><\/p>

Despite all this, 1968 went down in history as a special year that is still fondly remembered.<\/span><\/p>

The exhibition has made Kujo Novovi\u0107 think about the differences between his student days and the life students face today. In his time, he said, \u201cthe middle class share of the population was 80%, there were no considerable differences between people and we were all aware of our respective positions within society. It was never a shameful thing to lack money, but it\u2019s different now \u2014 if you have little money, you\u2019re automatically ostracized.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

\u201cDo I live now as much as THEY:LIVEd then?\u201d<\/b><\/p>

Part of the project culminated in an exhibition of archival photographs titled \u201cDo I live now as much as THEY:LIVEd then?\u201d<\/span><\/p>

\u201cThe title question was conceived as an invitation for all of us together to reflect on student life as a phenomenon, precisely through the archival records that were collected and displayed,\u201d Milena Prelevi\u0107 said.<\/span><\/p>

The exhibition is a collaborative curatorial effort undertaken by ten students, two from each institution or organization that participated in “They Live.” A selection of around 75 photographs taken between the end of World War II and today was collected from former and current dorm residents\u2019 private collections.<\/span><\/p>

\u201cI can say that we curated a fine collection of photos from various periods; for all the former dorm residents, these are bound to have a somewhat nostalgic undertone. It\u2019s really nice and interesting to see a host of such photos in one collection,\u201d said Ivana Bo\u0161kovi\u0107, one of the curators.<\/span><\/p>

Milena Prelevi\u0107 added that the photographs and audio recordings they collected gave them an additional insight into the lives of contemporary students and those from long ago.<\/span><\/p>

\u201cPhoto materials show us how it all looked back in the day \u2014 the get-togethers, the dorm rooms, the halls, terraces and cafeterias \u2014 which also enables us to track the spatial changes that took place over time. We can see the dominant trends in terms of fashion, entertainment, diet habits and meeting points, while some photos capture influential socio-political developments.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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In one of their earlier announcements, ICA said that the process made it possible for current university students to get in touch with different aspects of the lives of former students in order to communicate with them on a deeper and more meaningful level and thus learn more about them as well as their own lives and student experiences.<\/span><\/p>

Moreover, Torres Hortelano said that it was particularly interesting to see how similar student culture and dorm life are between Spain and the Western Balkans.<\/span><\/p>

\u201cSince the Western Balkans and Spain are relatively far apart when it comes to culture, this project managed to show how people enjoyed their campus lives in very similar ways. So, the photos and cultures don\u2019t separate us, but express the same thing in different ways,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>

Partner institutions from each country are planning to continue the project and follow it up with additional archival collections and publications.<\/span><\/p>

In the wake of this research, Novovi\u0107 revealed that he has a yet unpublished manuscript on his dorm life.<\/span><\/p>

\u201cI wrote down my memories of the days and people who I hold dear, with some of them being long gone now,\u201d Kujo said. He shared an excerpt from the preface to his book.<\/span><\/p>

\u201cInvolving numerous coffees and bottles of alcohol, numerous games of cards or yahtzee and numerous sleepless nights, so many wonderful moments transpired behind the gray walls of my dorm, so cold from the outside, but so warm from within,\u201d he writes.<\/span><\/p>

Among many people he shared the dorms with, Novovi\u0107 recalls one with special warmth, Miladin \u0160obi\u0107, the Yugoslav poet laureate of dormitory living. \u0160obi\u0107 surely left fond memories in his wake. As his song goes: <\/span>\u00a0\u201cIt’s never easy to leave that circle \/ Every outing dispirits me\/ ‘Cause if I was to grade them, my fellows would get \/ An A in camaraderie.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

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