20th May, Actopolis Apartment

Marijana Cvetković from the initiative Stanica has produced a very compelling piece of writing about the phenomenon of Druga Scena, one of the first self-organized umbrella platforms. The organization was active in Belgrade between 2005 and 2012. It brought together a number of individuals and groups that were dedicated to the critical analysis and political assessment of the predominantly neoliberal processes, along with the distortion of collective memory, that occurred in Serbian society during that time. In the post-Milošević era, a collective endeavour espousing a leftist political agenda was a rarity. Their goal to overcome denominators such as art and culture, and work within a wider social context.