Prague Quadrennial of stage design and stage space 2019 – Srđan Veljović

01 Name of author:

Srđan Veljović

02 Role/category:

Performing arts photography

03 Project title:

Encyclopedia of the Living 2015

04 Description (not exceeding 50 words):

The play Encyclopedia of the Living invites the Serbian and Albanian peoples to take responsibility for their cohabitation in the region, and sees their nationalism as a result of class stratification for the purpose of gaining profit and strengthening the power of the elite on both ends. Imagined as an art intervention in the Serbian and Kosovo reality, this play illustrates the turbulent Serbian-Albanian relations through the collage of scenes, including about forty characters from a century-long history, that actors perform in the Serbian and Albanian language alternately.

05 Impressum (production, place, year, other authors of the team):

Production: Centre for Cultural Decontamination, 2015; concept and direction: Zlatko Paković; text: Jeton Neziraj, Zlatko Paković; dramaturgy: Borka Pavićević, Shkëlzen Maliqi; cast: Adrian Morina, Shengyl Ismaili, Shpetim Selmani, Igor Filipović, Faris Berisha and Zlatko Paković; musicians: Božidar Obradinović (composer), Vladimir Pejković and Zoran Tegeltija; choreography: Gjergi Prevazi; stage design: Krste Džidrov; costume design: Marija Pupučevska

06 Photography:

Srđan Veljović

07 Biography (not exceeding 100 words):

Srđan Veljović, a photographer and conceptual documentarist, was born in 1968. He graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade. He is a member of ULUS (The Association of Fine Artists of Serbia). He deals with the problem of identity and its establishment as a field constituted from the outside, exploring the limits of transgression that defines him. He realised the following projects: Architecture and Fascism, A Good Life as an Excess, Heaven, The Boundaries of Gender, Economy of Power within Heterosexual Relationships, What is a Safe Altitude, Blade Wire, Arts of Transition, Transposing – Johnny Racković, Multitude, Techno – Positions of Subculture, Chance of Solidarity, Museums and More by a Place of Memories, Jarboli, Industria, Photographs, Portraits, Cinemas in the Culture of Memory, 20-25-29, Das Unheimliche Concept as a Practical Tool, The 1990s, Cultivation/Commodification, Migrations/Destinations. He exhibited his works at group and solo exhibitions in Serbia, Macedonia, Croatia, Bosnia, Slovenia, Romania, Albania, Austria, Germany and the United States of America.