Kokan Mladenović: We all lack civil courage
The director of plays staged across the whole region speaks about politics, theater and resistance.
One-on-one | Culture2019.05.08
If a country’s culture exclusively entails carnivals, bullfighting and similar events, then that country is faced with a serious problem.
The money they so generously give us is ours, not theirs. We have raised it in order for the state to function properly.
It is their duty to speak up, as well as to make the world a better place, and they are to do so through artistic means.
In this neoliberal dog-eat-dog business, civic values and democracy at large are the first to collapse.
Ljupko Mišeljić
Ljupko Mišeljić was born in 1996 in Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has been a journalist since 2012, reporting mostly about culture, politics, transitional justice and human rights.
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