Coming back from Berlin, many new feelings about the current Roma challenges fell into perspective. I spent the last few days doing a transcription of Suzana Milevska' s speech on (what she names) "post-representational curation" and the usage of "We" in today's Roma discourse. It is challenging to go so deep into someone's way of speaking/thinking, especially when the embellished words used are sometimes made-up by the individual.
We met up with the graphic designer last week. This was the first meeting on how the publication Duniya and Kupini (in rough translation from Romanyi language: World and Network) could potentially look like. The meeting went in the fashion of 'first meetings' - with many many ideas and aspirations that will, with further work, find their place and. We hope to publish this work in the form of a ''comic novel''.
Sounds exciting! It leaves a lot of space for all forms of narration. 
Another interesting thing about the title of the publications is that the same words could roughly be translated to Serbian/ Croatian/ Bosnian / Macedonian as "Quince and Blackberry", both very charming fruits!
But not everything can be understood through everything...right?
As a collective, we also started with movement trainings adapted by Anne Bogart & Tina Landau, in their ''The Viewpoints Book''. I got to know about this training methods and techniques in the past two years at College of the Atlantic, and I find them so important for collaborative work! And it seems like Mo, Milena and Mustafa enjoyed the first session of these practices. They also tease me and call them " Hot Shit from New York"...
Well... :P
“A seismic cultural shift occurred in America during the middle of the last century. It was a shift marked by such events as the protests against the Vietnam War, the marches for civil rights, and the birth of abstract expressionism, postmodernism and minimalism. During the 1960s, this cultural explosion and artistic revolution gained momentum in New York City, San Francisco, and other urban centers and then spread across the nation. The movement was political, aesthetic and personal, and it altered the way artists thought about their processes, their audiences and their role in the world. . . . These postmodern pioneers forged the territory upon which we now stand. They rejected the insistence by the modern dance world upon social messages and virtuosic technique, and replaced it with internal decisions, structures, rules or problems. What made the final dance was the context of the dance. Whatever movement occurred while working on these problems became the art. This philosophy lies at the heart of both Viewpoints and Composition.“
*Quote from Bogart & Landau’s The Viewpoints Book: A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Composition
“Deep practice is slow, demanding and uncomfortable. To practice deeply is to live deliberately in a space that is uncomfortable but with the encouraging sense that progress can happen.”
― Anne Bogart, What's the Story: Essays about art, theater and storytelling
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