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society and a lack of representatives to<br />
support them in political, economic and<br />
media structures.<br />
Although the series does not focus on<br />
discrimination itself, it deals with social<br />
groups that are in reality victims of daily<br />
racism and in many cases also victims<br />
of discrimination by law and media. The<br />
programs have the intention to help<br />
overcoming the xenophobia that the<br />
majority of the population suffers from<br />
by offering the material for understanding<br />
of the other.<br />
The program Open Studio of New Belgrade<br />
Chronicle analyses the following<br />
issues: alternative architecture, recycling,<br />
Roma community, gay and lesbian community,<br />
gender equality, alternative ways<br />
of living, alternative nurture, vegetarianism,<br />
alternative economies, citizens ini-<br />
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tiatives, the Chinese minority in Belgrade,<br />
alternative medicines, as well as concepts<br />
opposing main stream consumers’ society,<br />
homeless etc.<br />
All contributions are appreciated. You are<br />
welcome to send suggestions for program<br />
issues to: tanja@diplomats.com<br />
and to join the blog at: http://tanjaostojic.<br />
blogspot.com<br />
Tanja Ostojić<br />
The TV series Open Studio of New Belgrade Chronicle<br />
has been broadcasted on TV Politika, Belgrade,<br />
Serbia (February 28, 2007 at 20h), and on BHTV1,<br />
Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Kitchen<br />
SCCA/pro.ba TV show (April 2007). The material<br />
has been shown as well in several art spaces in<br />
Belgrade and Skopje.<br />
The first two TV series of the “Open Studio of New<br />
Belgrade Chronicle” were realized in collaboration<br />
with the independent TV production VIN - Weekly<br />
Independent News www.vin.co.yu<br />
Tanja Ostojić (Serbia, 1972) studied art in Belgrade and Nantes. She is an independent interdisciplinary artist<br />
and cultural activist based in Berlin and Belgrade. She has been active in the art scene in the former Yugoslavia<br />
since 1994 and internationally since 1997. Ostojić includes herself as a character in situationist performances<br />
and uses diverse media in her artistic research, thereby examining social configurations and relations<br />
of power. She predominantly works from the migrant woman’s perspective and the approach in her works is<br />
defined by political position, humour and integration of the recipient.<br />
She performed and exhibited recently in: “Global Feminisms” at Brooklyn Museum, NY; “Shrinking Cities,<br />
Interventions”, Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig; “Normalisation” Rooseum Malmö; “In Transit” Haus<br />
der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; “Plateau of Humankind”, 49th Venice Biennale; “Manifesta 2” Luxembourg; ICA<br />
London… www.kultur.at/howl/tanja
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