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“You are worth as much as you are able to create, you are strong<br />
to the extent you are able to confront your own weaknesses”.<br />
The saying, first used as a commentary about the value of Croatian<br />
culture in comparison with the strength of the Croatian<br />
cultural policy, can be transferred to the conditions of culture in<br />
the sense of creativity and the cultural policy in general.<br />
The Maribor Festival offers an interesting discussion at the<br />
presentation of the latest book by probably the best-known<br />
Croatian music critic Bosiljka Perić Kempf, noted for her sharp<br />
articulation and Melita Forstnerič Hajnšek, yearlong culture<br />
editor at the daily Večer.<br />
The author of the acknowledged book of selected critiques entitled<br />
“Lice i naličje” (Both sides of the Coin) and the yearlong<br />
radio and newspaper journalist, independent and incorruptible<br />
culture critic and essayist, speak in the book ˝Srečanja in<br />
pogovori ˝ (Meetings and Discussions) about top-level European<br />
artists and managers.<br />
Only they speak about their work, successes and failures, about<br />
their cooperation and experiences with Croatia and its cultural<br />
policy in general, but actually all speak about the same things:<br />
about the principles of good cultural practices, about how the<br />
average fear the excellent, about the problem of recruitment<br />
of the incompetent and similar ignoramuses among managers<br />
of cultural and media houses, which in some places is becoming<br />
standard practise. The book is interesting mainly because it<br />
drafts a selection of speakers exclusively according to the quality<br />
criterion; cultural trainees of a European and worldwide level<br />
think quite consistently, disregarding ethnic and geographical<br />
affiliation.<br />
“Interview as a school “, says Ivo Malec in the preface and that<br />
brilliant sentiment embraces the basic quality of these discussions:<br />
the interlocutors always have enough time for the articulation<br />
and development of thought, discreet and intelligent<br />
questions always allow scintillating creativity and charged intellectual<br />
discussion enchant us.<br />
It is well known that a good interview can be excellent reading<br />
matter; in addition to beautiful thoughts, abundant information<br />
and data primarily about modern Croatian cultural production<br />
and its place on the world cultural map, this book will undoubtedly<br />
reverberate in the best possible form of protest against<br />
hewing media space for culture and science, thus the only two<br />
real indicators of the value of a nation.<br />
PROGRAM / PROGRAM<br />
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