OTVORENO PISMO MINISTARKI KULTURE REPUBLIKE SRBIJE MAJI GOJKOVIĆ

Mi, dole potpisane/i umetnice_i i druge_ akterke_i plesne scene u Republici Srbiji, građanke i građani ove zemlje koji više decenija nesebično ulažemo svoje znanje i rad u njenu kulturu i društveni razvoj, izražavamo svoj protest i nezadovoljstvo zbog odluka koje ste doneli i potpisali u formi Rešenja o dodeli sredstava za sufinansiranje projekata u oblasti Umetnička igra – balet, narodna igra, savremena igra (stvaralaštvo, produkcija i interpretacija) u 2023. godini od 5. maja ove godine.

Pored toga što ste rezultate objavili 24. maja kršeći zakonski rok koji Vam je dat za ovu proceduru, ugrožavajući time naše pravo na rad, Vaša odluka je ove godine potpuno onemogućila rad čitave nezavisne plesne scene .

Ovaj jedan jedini instrument kulturne politike koji Ministarstvo kulture ima za oblast plesa zloupotrebljen je na sledeće načine:

• Iako se radi o konkursu za SAVREMENO STVARALAŠTVO, ove godine je Ministarstvo podržalo SAMO JEDNU novu plesnu produkciju, koja, uz to, nastaje u okviru plesne škole, a ne profesionalnog plesnog okruženja. Zahtevamo hitno objašnjenje za takvu odluku. U suprotnom, smatraćemo da Vam je namera da u potpunosti onemogućite rad savremene plesne scene i time je eliminišete.

• Iako se radi o konkursu za SAVREMENO STVARALAŠTVO,  trećina ionako nedovoljnih sredstava dodeljena je ogromnom broju amaterskih društava i projekata amaterskog stvaralaštva, ukidajući dodatno mogućnost za SAVREMENU umetničku produkciju. I ne samo to: iz budžeta za ples finansirate guslarske programe i druge muzičke programe koji nemaju nikakve veze sa bilo kojom formom plesa. Zato zahtevamo da pod hitno osmislite liniju za amatersko stvaralaštvo koje je neophodno sistemski podržati posebnim merama kulturne politike.

• JEDNU TREĆINU sredstava iz linije 481 za civilni sektor PONOVO ste dodelili jednom PRIVATNOM, VISOKOPROFITABILNOM FESTIVALU i za podršku isključivo stranim velikim, bogatim kompanijama, sa programom namenjenim samo bogatim građanima naše zemlje. Zahtevamo da osmislite druge načine finansiranja ovakvih programa, koji neće preuzeti novac namenjen novim praksama stvaralaštva i produkcije koje se na lokalnoj umetničkoj sceni razvijaju preko 40 godina posvećenim umetničkim i pedagoškim radom.

• U komisiju ste ponovo pozvali osobe koje ne poznaju dovoljno kretanja i dinamične i višeslojne pojave u polju savremenog plesa i koje dolaze iz dominantno institucionalnog konteksta. Kako u tom institucionalnom kontekstu savremeni ples gotovo da uopšte ne postoji, logično je pitanje njihove kompetentnosti da procenjuju pojave, programe, stvaralaštvo i potrebe u ovoj oblasti plesa. Podsećamo Vas da svake godine Ministarstvo dobija predloge stručnjaka koji te godine nemaju svoje projekte, ali bi svojim uvidima i znanjem mogli da doprinesu kvalitetnim i objektivnim odlukama o razvoju oblasti plesa kroz taj jedan jedini instrument kakav je godišnji konkurs. Zahtevamo da ti predlozi počnu da se uvažavaju.

• Zabrinjava i činjenica da se u komisiju ponovo uvode akteri scene sa visokim pozicijama kao što su predsedništvo organizacije koja konkuriše (Udruženje baletskih umetnika Srbije). Dozvolili ste da jedna od članica komisije dodeli 3 miliona dinara organizaciji u čijem je predsedništvu, te time ugrozi konkurs ovim koruptivnim mehanizmom koji ste i Vi svojim potpisom legitimisali. Zahtevamo da sve odluke ove komisije ponovo preispitaju POD HITNO.

Navedene odluke svedoče ne samo o odsustvu bilo kakve sistemske kulturne politike za ples i uopšte savremeno stvaralaštvo, već i o duboko zabrinjavajućoj nekompetentnosti Ministarstva kulture i njenih komisija da se bave ovako važnim zadacima. Posledice toga trpimo godinama u vidu nemogućnosti za redovan i nesmetan rad, odlaska mladih i srednjih generacija umetnika i stručnjaka u inostranstvo, srozanog socijalnog statusa i života u nezasluženom siromaštvu, nerešavanja sistemskih pitanja i problema našeg sektora koji nema NIJEDAN adekvatan radni prostor niti scenu na kojoj može redovno predstaviti svoj rad.

Dugogodišnje odsustvo svakog dijaloga sa plesnom scenom i svim njenim akterima i zatvaranje mogućnosti da ti akteri imaju uticaj na kulturne politike koje treba da regulišu njihovo polje rada dovelo je do sistemskog urušavanja tog polja i do nagomilanog besa koji ovim putem izražavamo. Takođe, izražavamo i zabrinutost povodom odsustva dijaloga između Ministarstva i plesne scene i zbog svođenja komunikacije isključivo pravnim putem, kao u slučaju tužbe koju je nezavisna plesna scena dobila protiv Ministarstva kulture 2016. godine kada je polovina sredstava za finansiranje bila dodeljena Beogradskom festivalu igre.    

U skladu sa svim navedenim zahtevamo da ove odluke preispitate i otvorite prostor za dijalog, saradnju, solidarnost, zajedničko odlučivanje o ovim pitanjima i da tako vratite poverenje radnika i radnica u kulturi u rad Ministarstva kulture.

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OPEN LETTER TO THE MINISTER OF CULTURE OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA, MAJA GOJKOVIĆ

We, the undersigned artists and other actors of the dance scene in the Republic of Serbia, citizens of this country who have selflessly invested our knowledge and work in its culture and social development for decades, express our protest and dissatisfaction with the decisions you made and signed in in the form of the Decision on the allocation of funds for the co-financing of projects in the field of contemporary arts and culture, in this case for dance – ballet, folk dance, contemporary dance (creation, production and interpretation) in 2023, dated May 5 2023.

In addition to the fact that you published the results on May 24, which is a violation of the legal deadline, thereby endangering our right to work, your decision threatens the work of the entire independent dance scene this year.

This only cultural policy measure that the Ministry of Culture has for the field of dance has been misused in the following ways:

– Although it is a competition for CONTEMPORARY ART CREATION, this year the Ministry supported ONLY ONE new dance production, which, moreover, is created within a dance school, not a professional dance environment. We demand an urgent explanation for such a decision. Otherwise, we will consider that your intention is to completely dismantle contemporary dance scene and thereby eliminate it.

– Even though it is a contest for CONTEMPORARY ART CREATION, a third of the already insufficient funds were allocated to a huge number of amateur associations and projects, further eliminating the possibility for CONTEMPORARY artistic production. Even more, from the dance budget you finance fiddle programs and other music programs that have nothing to do with any form of dance. That is why we demand that you urgently devise a line for amateur culture, which must be systematically supported by special measures of cultural policy.

– ONE THIRD of the funds from the line 481 for the civil society sector have AGAIN been allocated to a PRIVATE, HIGHLY PROFITABLE FESTIVAL and to invite exclusively foreign dance companies, with a program intended only for rich people as the audience. We demand that you come up with other ways of financing such programs, which will not take over the money intended for new experimental practices and dance production that have been developing on the local dance scene for over 40 years by a committed dance community.

– You invited to the jury again the people who do not know enough about dynamic and complex developments in the field of contemporary dance and who come from a dominantly institutional context. As contemporary dance almost does not exist in that institutional context, it is a logical question of their competence to assess topics, programs, projects and needs in this field. We remind you that every year the Ministry receives from us proposals with names of those who have insights and knowledge that can contribute to quality and objective decisions on the development of the field of dance through that one and only instrument such as the annual competition. We demand that those proposals begin to be respected.

– The fact that the holders of high positions such as the presidency of the Association of Ballet Artists of Serbia) are being reintroduced to the commission is also worrying. You allowed one of the members of the commission to allocate 3 million dinars to the organization she co-chairs, thereby jeopardizing the competition with this corrupt mechanism that you also legitimized with your signature. We demand that all decisions of this commission be reconsidered URGENTLY.

The aforementioned decisions testify not only to the absence of any systemic cultural policy for dance and contemporary art creation in general, but also to the deeply worrying incompetence of the Ministry of Culture and its juries to deal with such important tasks. We have been suffering the consequences of this for years in the form of the impossibility for regular and decent work conditions, the brain drain of young and middle generations of artists and experts abroad, the declining social status and living in undeserved poverty, the failure to solve the systemic issues and problems of our sector, which does not have ANY adequate work space or stage on which the dance can regularly be presented.

The long-term absence of any dialogue with the dance scene and all its actors and the closing of the possibility for those actors to have an influence on the cultural policies that regulate their field of work, led to the systemic collapse of that field and to the accumulated anger that we express in this way. We also express concern regarding the reduction of communication exclusively through legal means, as in the case of the lawsuit that the independent dance scene raised against the Ministry of Culture in 2016 when half of the funding was allocated to the Belgrade Dance Festival.

In accordance with all the above, we demand that you review these decisions and open space for dialogue, cooperation, solidarity, participative decision-making on these issues, and thus restore the trust of cultural workers in the work of the Ministry of Culture.

Potpisnice & potpisnici / Undersigned

Predstavnici plesne scene u Srbiji / Representatives and advocates of contemporary dance scene in Serbia:

1. Miloš Janjić
2. Jovana Rakić
3. Bojana Mladenović
4. Bojana Cvejić
5. Ana Vujanović
6. Danka Sekulović
7. Isidora Poledica
8. Isidora Popović
9. Đorđe Živadinović Grgur
10. Jovana Stojić
11. Simonida Žarković
12. Jana Milenković
13. Isidora Stanišić
14. Sanja Krsmanović Tasić
15. Mirjana Dragosavljević
16. Nataša Milojević
17. Marija Popović
18. Teona Milićević
19. Milan Manić
20. Neda Kovinić
21. Vladana Manić
22. Aleksander Zain
23. Svetlana Đurović i Perpetuumdance
24. Ana Obradović
25. Kristina Antansijević
26. Vanja Višnjić
27. Jelena Cvetković
28. Dejan Kolarov
29. Aleksandra Bibić Kolarov
30. Marko Milić
31. Anđela Žugić
32. Vesna Pašćanović
33. Anastasija Kanazarević
34. Kristina Žurkić
35. Predrag Dedić
36. Bogdan Dimitrijević
37. Julia Arzumanova
38. Aleksandar Bartol
39. Ljudmila Korobova
40. Nikola Planka
41. Jelena Jović
42. Ana Dragić
43. Nela Antonović
44. Tijana Malek
45. Lidija Antonović
46. Ana Dubljevic
47. Marija Jevtić
48. Vera Erac
49. Vladimir Čubrilo
50. Ana Ranković
51. Dragana Bulut
52. Marijana Cvetković
53. Tatjana Pajović
54. Ana Vuković
55. Sanja Radulović
56. Dušan Murić
57. Igor Koruga
58. Boris Čakširan i ERGstatus
59. Ana Ignjatović Zagorac
60. Zoran Pantelić
61. Anastasija Pantović
62. Milena Todorović
63. Aleksandar Popov
64. Ivan Ćosić
65. Hleb teatar/Umetnička Utopija
66. Ana Pinter
67. Marija Miladinović
68. Andreja Kargačin
69. Dražen Horvatić
70. Ksenija Đurović
71. Filip Perić
72. 90 članica Asocijacije Nezavisna kulturna scena Srbije
73. Milan Ramšak Marković
74. Stefan Veselinović
75. Gala Šalipur
76. Ćirilović Popović Katarina
77. Jelena Kajgo
78.  Bitef Dance Company
79. Frosina Dimovska
80. Jovana Blagojević
81. Isidora Subić
82. Anđelija Todorović
83. Danica Arapović
84. Ister Teatar
85. ​​Aleksandra Čavić
86. Aleksandra Ketig
87. Ena Entina Gucunski Nakić
88. Ista Stepanov
89. Nina Putnik
90. Stefan Milošević
91. Tatjana Dimović
92. Milica Ćirić
93. Vladan Varga
94. Nađa Davidović
95. Tara Tomić
96. Jovana Mihić
97. Novosadska sekcija Međunarodnog saveta za igru CID-UNESCO
98. Tamara Pjević
99. Jakša Filipovac
100. Nataša Gvozdenović
101. Marko Pejović
102. Nina Pantović
103. Andrea Dobrić
104. Jovana Grujić
105. Nina Popović
106. Ljubica Nesić
107. Anja Srećković
108. Ana Popović
109. Anđela Petković
110. Tanja Stanković
111. Milica Lazić
112. Ana Gliksman
113. Vladimir Jerić Vlidi
114. Vuk Stevanović
115. Vanja Halupa
116. Anđela Aranđelović
117. Branko Mitrović
118. Roza Tina Perić
119. Milica Pisić
120. Miloš Sofrenović
121. Miona Petrović
122. Jovana Ikonić
123. Jovana Zelenović
124. Dunja Crnjanski
125. Miloš Isailović
126. Miloš Kecman
127. Milan Bačkulja
128. Ivana Kozomara
129. Ivana Savić-Jaćić
130. Olivera Kecojevic
131. Miloš Đilas
132. Jelena Piljić
133. Željka Jakovljević
134. Katarina Stojkov Slijepčević
135. Nina Radovanović
136. Milja Rušić
137. Nada Stamenković
138. Olivera Kovačević Crnjanski
139. Tara Tainovic
140. Milica Babić
141. Alisa Dinjaški
142. Nikola Živković
143. Dejan Bošković
144. Mina Ćirić
145. Tanja Ivanov
146. Natalija Jevtović
147. Mina Čolić
148. Iva Pešić
149. Tanja Stefanović
150. Viktor Konstantinović
151. Milica Cerović
152. Ivana Milovanović, Beogradska sekcija CID-UNESCO
153. Dalija Aćin Thelander
154. Daniell Rožek
155. Jovan Jović
156. Maja Bosnić
157. Luka Knežević Strika
158. Svetozar Adamović
159. Jelena Ivančević
160. Zoran Todorović
161. Vladimir Opsenica
162. Danijela Vučković
163. Vanja Uremović
164. Katarina Bućić
165. Rade Obradović
166. Tatjana Stricki
167. Lidija Micović
168. Olga Dimitrijević
169. Nikola Knežević
170. DAH teatar
171. Biljana Vujović
172. Darja Janošević
173. Edin Omanović
174. Ašhen Ataljanc
175. Ana Grmuša Pejović
176. Aleksandar Konovalov
177. Bojana Matejić
178. Tamara Tomić Vajagić
179. Olga Uzikaeva
180. Nikola Voštinić
181. Maja Pelević
182. Ksenija Stevanović
183. Nevena Karanović
184. Anđelka Nikolić
185. Dejan Gocić
186. Jelena Kajteš
187. Katarina Đorđević Urošević
188. Maja Stanišić
189. Hemnalina Miresković
190. Ivana Koraksić
191. Snežana Stojković
192. Jelena Markov
193. Nevena Mijušković
194. Miljka Kurepa Janošević
195. Maja Kovačević
196. Jelena Jezdović
197. Pozorišno udruženje “Letnji bioskop”, Subotica
198. Maja Ćirić
199. Ana Aranđelović
200. Zrinka Užbinec
201. Vesna Bujošević
202. Romana Caran
203. Višnja Sretenović
204. Darko Dragićević
205. Tatjana Gavrilović
206. Anisja Gavrilović
207. Ana Vujović
208. Jelena Bogavac
209. Olivera Guconić
210. Aleksandra Veljković
211. Joana Knežević
212. Gordana Šuvak
213. Maja Ćirić
214. Dragana Stanisavljević
215. Jelena Markov
216. Maja Kovačević
217. Snežana Stojković
218. Nevena Mijušković
219. Nemanja Čađo
220. Ivana Burzan
221. Dina Radoman
222. Jelena Vuksanović
223. Stefan Filipović
224. Olja Nikolić
225. ArtEq
226. Iva Jovanović
227. Sunčica Milosavljević
228. BAZAART
229. Milutinović Saša
230. Gordana Petrović
231. Danijela Matović
232. Ana Veinović
233. Vera Večanski
234. Olivera Kostić
235. Predrag Rakić
236. Natascha Schmelz
237. Marija Pokrajac
238. Sonja Stojanović
239. Mariza Pavlović
240. Jelena Tošić
241. Jelena Vujović
242. Lara Seizović
243. Milica Tančić
244. Alisa Oravec
245. KC State of Art
246. Martin Marek
247. Daniel Molnar
248. Aleksa Stojanović
249. Tereza Veber Oravec
250. Aurora Prelević
251. Slavica Obradović
252. Mina Milošević
253. Bojan Đorđev
254. Nevena Jovanović
255. Lana Pavkov
256. Jovana Berar
257. Tatjana Nikolić
258. Jelena Dejanović
259. Ana Stanišić
260. Slavica Dolašević
261. Stefan Martinović
262. Nina Veljković
263. Danica Prodanović
264. Vanja Gavrić
265. Nikola Davidović
266. Milica Jeremić
267. Gordana Šuvak
268. Andjela Vuković
269. Zorana Milošaković
270. Vladan Jeremić
271. Mirjana Atanasković
272. Iva Milošević
273. Isidora Bojić
274. Lana Trajković
275. Vesna Vesić
276. Tijana Kosanović
277. Jovana Vezilić
278. Ana Džokić
279. Hristina Šormaz
280. Aleksandra Šćerbak
281. Jasna Stanišić
282. Biljana Radenković
283. Marko Nektan
284. Darinka Kovačević
285. Jelena Stojanović
286. Ljubica Beljanski-Ristić
287. Vida Knežević
288. Bojana Denić
289. Sonja Radaković
290. Dejan Marković
291. Luka Rajić
292. Miloš Đurica
293. Aleksandra Živanović
294. Ana Konstantinović
295. Nađa Bjelanović
296. Katarina Stojković
297. Ivan Ilić Kišoljubac
298. Ivana Ivković
299. Tara Stojanović
300. Jelisaveta Vučenović
301. Jelena Kolarević
302. Sandra Nikač
303. Željko Maksimović
304. Dejana Volarev
305. Sonja Radaković
306. Natalija Stoiljković
307. Danijela Čorbić
308. Nikola Korać
309. Isidora Marković
310. Sofija Uzur
311. Ema Pantović
312. Jovana Srebro
313. Milan Trifunović
314. Tea Movsesijan
315. Katarina Ilijašević
316. Emilja Đonin
317. Andreja Kulešević
318. Dragana Koruga
319. Olga Cogo
320. Jovana Marjanović
321. Anastasija Jovanović
322. Branka Ivanović
323. Dejana Milovanov
324. Danijela Kecman
325. Jovana Janković
326. Jelena Jevtić Marjanović
327. Neda Lukić
328. Filip Mikić
329. Jovana Golubović
330. Aleksandra Nikolić
331. Larisa Tereščenko
332. Daniela Stefanov
333. Tamara Jeremić
334. Andrijana Cvetinčanin
335. Anica Radović
336. Reflektor teatar
337. Dragana Jovović
338. Milan Milošević
339. Sonja Pregrad, Zagreb
340. Lola Joksimović
341. Ilina Mataruga
342. Ivana Nikolić
343. Ivana Kovačević
344. Marija Prelević
345. Ferid Karajica
346. Milan Milošević
347. Ružica Rutić
348. DunjaJocić
349. Marinus Groothof
350. Staša Ivanović
351. Sara Kostić
352. Branka Baretić Milenković
353. Milena Dragićević Šešić
354. Jelena Janković Beguš
355. Nura Kolbianova
356. Sara Abci
357. Sofija Malić
358. Ivana Ljujić
359. Nataša Todović
360. Ranko Lasica
361. Nikola Mladenović
362. Danka Purić
363. Slaven Momčilović
364. Marija Obradović
365. Lena Todorović
366. Milena Ćujić
367. Andrea Mladenović
368. Bojana Zimonjić
369. Anja Đurović
370. Nemanja Dragojlović
371. David  SIlva
372. Katarina Jordacijevic
373. Aleksandra Arizanović
374. Tatjana Tatić
375. Mira Odić
376. Emilija Đonin
377. Dika Babić
378. Tamara Nikolić
379.  Izvršni odbor udruženja za razvoj pozorišta za decu i mlade Assitej Srbija
380. Centar za dramu u edukaciji i umetnosti-Cedeum
381. Viktorija Ilioska
382. Rok Vevar, Privremeni slovenački plesni arhiv
383. Milena Dragićević Šešić