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Geo-political territory: Where is your organization based? Is it local,
regional, or international organization?
Currently, our meetings and most of the projects are happening in Belgrade.
We find it very important where we live, work and act, and not
really important if it is labeled as local or international. This question appears
like it is coming from the background of “mapping” and “identitary”
approach, as perceived in recent “identity re-counts” imposed by the official
European “diversities” discourse. In the light of recent attempts to
define politics as “the art of identity” rather then the real-world “material”
action discourse there is also a view on the issues of “identity” as a supplement
or re-articulation of what is defined as a “class”, and the same goes
for derivative terms such are “cultural differences”, “creative industries”
and the notion of “cultural translation”. I don’t think that it matters if the
organization is declared as local or international – what is of importance
is its material practice. Most of our members live and/or work in Belgrade.
So we can say that, at the moment, we are a Belgrade-based network. We
have members from Niš, Novi Sad and other cities/towns in Serbia and
we have active participants on our mailing list(s) from Croatia. This can
“earn us the title” of regional organization. But, some of our members have
years of experience and collaboration with different actors from the region,
Europe and beyond, some people are living abroad but originally are from
this society, some members maintain and plan to include different forms of
international collaboration, so this may put us in “international” category.
Since the technology allows us to communicate, coordinate and even in
some cases act from wherever we are to wherever we want, this geographical
categorization should not be considered crucial anymore. Since we are
dealing a lot, as the most organizations here, with the practice of networking,
with an accent on the digital networks, the “correct” question may be
“where is your server based”, as well…
[organizational structure]
What are the rules of/in your organization?
We don’t have much rules yet, but we do introduce and change them over
time.
How do you produce these rules?
Most of the rules we create from the experience of working on certain projects
and “problems” we encountered in practice.
Do you aim at creating a non- or less-organized organization? If yes,
how do you do? Is there a core group? Is the core group flexible?
At the moment, yes, and yes.
Do you consider the structure of your organization as an utopian
model? If yes, how?
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