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Aleksandra Dulic

Serbia – Montenegro

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My becoming a woman was marked by the war in Yugoslavia. I entered my twenties with the loss of my national identity and the consequence was a damaged personal identity. Much of my personal and university education happened through peaceful walks around the streets of Belgrade with my professors, where, we challenged each other to learn how to find a personal and collective political power great enough to make our voices heard, to have our peaceful perspective make a difference. I decided to leave my country, to leave the chaos. Many young men and women that found themselves in a middle of this chaos, which no one really wanted, inspired this decision. Now, most of my school and university friends are spread around the globe. This drain of young and educated people is another loss my country has had to deal with. My grandparents lived in Serbia before I came to this world. The generation of my grandparents suffered from world wars in first half of twentieth century. However, my parents had peaceful upbringing and youth. In many ways they had many more opportunities. I grew up in a communist country, where I got my university education for free. My mother had her education in architecture for free. My grandmother was a physicists, she got her education even before the communism. But communism definitely brought equality between men and women. So as a woman I never really needed to fight with men for equality. Today it is very hard to compare myself with my parents, since I live in Diaspora, and hence have the whole new set of challenges to deal with. From my perspective, as a new comer, it is even hard to even imagine the reality that women were facing in North America some thirty years ago. What I bring forward from my experiences of growing up in Belgrade is the need to be engaged in my community, in the locality of the place where I live and to focus may actions on creating art that makes a difference. My interest is creating art, which as a powerful multimodal form of communication has potentials to, in vital and critical times, go beyond its borders and take on the role of a critically engaged social agent.

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