Nikola Dimitrović (1990, Belgrade) completed his master’s studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Arts in Belgrade in 2019 at the Department of Painting. Although he is a painter, he often chooses to articulate his artistic ideas through concept, video art, spatial installation and sculpture, which allows him to approach the necessary experimentation, critical thinking and engagement. In his work, Dimitrović most often touches on issues of identity, tradition, gender stereotypes and roles, as well as interweaving religious and sexual elements.
Ljiljana Ilić has a Master’s degree in German language and literature at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade. She published two poetry books: “It’s not all fun” (Pesničenje) and “More Important Things” (Edition Najbolja, Association of Writers and Literary Translators in Pančevo). She is a member of the organizing team of Pesničenje/Poetrying, poetry events organized for years at the Rex Cultural Center in Belgrade and throughout Serbia.

THIS IS NOT A PLACE TO SIT
This performative and participatory act with the character of a happening will take place in the public space of the underground passage near the Palace of Albania, as well as in the open space in the immediate vicinity and around the Cultural Center of Belgrade. The work represents a kind of call to action and reaction, overview, participation, protest and reflection of a society in which the apparent protagonist is the chair, and man is its bearer, manager, user and servant. By arranging the chairs in the space imitating different settings from everyday life, a new space is opened, a hybrid, transformative space in which questions of everyday aesthetics (M. Glavurtić), panoptic model of society (G. Bentham) and paradox (S. Žižek) are intertwined.