Symptoms of Unresolved Conflict

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Tent. It's Time We Got To Know Each Other, Belgrado, The Museum of Yugoslav History, 20-10-2011, 04-12-2011. - Reader bij de 52e October Salon te Belgrado met een overzicht van de bijdragen. - The 52nd October Salon has set itself the task of becoming a catalyst for a debate on obedience to authority, on conformism, social responsibility, as well as disobedience and non-conformism. For the purpose of examining the key notion, that of responsibility, the curators use three methods: simulation, experiment and re-enactment of events - believing that many artists today have embraced those methods as their artistic tools, particularly in the domains of performance, installations, film, video and photography. The emphasis of this October Salon will be laid on the development of artistic initiatives and projects which, over the last few years, have turned from the global to the local and specific. Artists often react responsibly to their immediate social and political surroundings, posing questions about the microcosm in which they live and work, and the curators believe that the term "responsibility" denotes the ability to respond. Simulation, experiment and re-enactment of events - in that particular order - may be understood as methods of shaping contemporary reality, reviewing it and understanding it better. Such methods are made visible through a confrontation of simulated and real events, research into mechanisms that produce unquestioning obedience or submission to the orders of powers-that-be, through a repetition/reconstruction of a particular event as an act of distancing, rationalisation or catharsis... Via the active participation of individuals, institutions, non-governmental organisations