R E - R E A D E R - Biro Beograd

TkH, Journal for Performing Arts Theory:
Self-organization issue, published by TkH Centre for performing Arts and
Bitef Theater, November 2006. This publication is licensed under the Creative
Commons Attribution–Share- Alike 2.5 License
[Q] Alice Chaucat & Ana Vujanović
[A] Vladimir Jerić Vlidi, in behalf of slobodnakultura.org
[name/title of organization]
slobodnakultura.org
What is the format/legal status of your organization?
Legally, we do not exist.
In which field of art/culture/society do you work? Is your organization
platform of projects, organizations/groups, or individuals?
We do act within any social sphere on demand of a certain member or a
project. The members could be individuals or groups, already organized
before, or not. We consider that what we have established so far can be
articulated as a meta-organization, since we consist of different NGO’s,
groups and individuals. What we are is more of a consulting and decisionmaking
joint platform rather then the organization in traditional sense.
We are not formally registered, and I think this position has more advantages
in this initial phase. In “tactical” sense, the one of advantages is to
apply for particular project trough the most “convenient” of our member
organizations. Also, at this stage of existing social relationships in our
environment, I feel that some conditions characteristic for more mature
generation of transitional society are not being met yet – “branding” and
“positioning”, especially in the public sphere, and that there is a social
atmosphere of mandatory “mapping” and adjusting to a “convenient” coordinate
system and ranking mechanisms. As diverse with the issues it theoretically
can deal with, from free software trough different activism and
free knowledge all the way to “free culture”, however perceived or defined,
slobodnakultura.org would hardly avoid being “classified” according to the
field/topic of its first or most prominent action. There is a general feeling
around that we don’t want yet to “position” ourselves within the “map”.
We are yet to explore and articulate where the premises of “openness” and
“freedom” we are trying to base our organization upon are placed in social,
cultural or political aspects of our society, what those terms mean today
and how the role of those premises could be transformed in the future. So,
the tactic of slobodnakultura.org, addressing the particular project/action
we agree upon, would be “ASAP”, while the strategy, addressing the building
of the protocols and experience necessary and, well, the “brand” of the
organization, that would be “step-by-step”. This approach may easily be
changed at any given moment :-)
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