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NOVA ISKRA: Designers Lab Open Call

Photo: Luka Knezevic Strika

Design Incubator NOVA ISKRA (Belgrade, Serbia) invites applicants from the area of design (22 to 35 years old), active in the domains of industrial and furniture design, interior design, architecture (with special focus on furniture design and home accessorize) to

Get ready for SHARE2 conference

Sami Ben Gharbia

On April 26-28, Belgrade hosts the second edition of Europe’s premium event showcasing all things smart and subversive. Make sure you spread the news around With ominous acronyms liks SOPA, PIPA, and ACTA flooding our news feeds, the Share2 conference

Ones to Watch 2012: Kink

Kink

We bring you a selection of Balkan-related artists to keep your eye on in the coming year Apparently armed just with an old PC some ten years a go, Strahil Velchev a.k.a Kink soon got his hands on a Vermona

Occupying the barracks: make art, not war

Drustveni Centar Novi Sad - occupying the barracks

When former socialist military spaces become new temples of alternative culture, not everyone is happy about it. Whereas in Slovakia the art squatters become institutionalized, in Serbia they get evicted All across former Yugoslavia, military property owned by the Yugoslav

Ones to Watch 2012: Maja Miloš

Maja Milos

We bring you a selection of Balkan-related artists to keep your eye on in the coming year The young Serbian film director tops our 2012 list with her upcoming drama Clip, exploring the tension between apathy and unrestrained euphoria of

Where the hell is the Balkans, anyway?

fox news map

Fox News has recently featured a map of Balkans with all the state names and borders mixed up. Of course, it ended up in the news here, because we always get offended if someone does something like that: is it

Ones to Watch 2012: Ana Rajcevic

Ana Rajcevic, ANIMAL: The Other Side of Evolution (fiberglass, polyester resin, 2012) / Photo by Fernando Lessa

We bring you a selection of Balkan-related artists to keep your eye on in the coming year Ana is a Serbian sculptor and fashion artist, based in London, working at the intersection of sculpture and costume design. She is specialised

Houston, do we have a hoax?

Tito in space

Interview with Žiga Virc, creator of “Houston, We Have a Problem!” trailer for his alleged documentary on socialist Yugoslavia’s secret space program supposedly sold to the US in 1961 Posted on YouTube and picked up by numerous social network users,

Ones to Watch 2012: Oknai

Oknai

We bring you a selection of Balkan-related artists to keep your eye on in the coming year Why Oknai? Because his beats are fatter than Dwight Schrute’s. Because his wobble is funky and he knows how to write an actual

Interview: Repetitor, not like in the news

Repetitor playing Secret Lounge, Pristina (Kosovo). Photo by Luka Knezevic Strika

Serbia’s most exciting rock band takes a trip to the holy land. Playing three gigs in Kosovo, Repetitor bridge the gap between the two countries, at least for a moment, speaking the universal language of punk When Serbian band Repetitor