ПЕРФОРМАТИВНОСТА КАКО ОБЛИК НА ОПШТЕСТВЕН АКТИВИЗАМ
PERFORMANCE AS A MODEL FOR OPTIMIZED ACTIVITY

Summary/Abstract: During the past eight years, in Macedonia there were a lot of dramatic and political turbulences which had their culmination this year. Since 2009 many ways of how to express the accumulated dissatisfaction have appeared, for instance, through a permanent research of the possibilities of how to animate as many citizens as possible to demonstrate their revolt against the state’s regime. In a society where to tell your own opinion directly, without any consequences concerning your job, your personal and your family’s safety , became a dangerous thing, in a society where the media work under the pressure of one small criminal group that holds trapped all public institutions, in such a society, year after year, month by month, shamefully have appeared many attempts to act, by using a known and less known forms of political activism as well as by including various forms of performativity with purpose to articulate one mutual attitude of mind regarding the social and political questions. My paper includes a number of performance forms of activism which appeared in Macedonia in the last 8 years’ time. Some of them are: the series of protests after the death of Martin Neshkoski; the hugging of GTC (City Mall) as a defense from the “baroquization” of its fasade, “Liberty Square”; the choir “The singing people of Skopje” and some other examples of their expression; the AKTO festival as part of the activities organized by FRU (FACULTY OF THINGS UNLEARNABLE); the Student plenum and the Autonomous Zone; AJDE!, PROTESTIRAM (LET’S GO, I’M PROTESTING) and the SHARENA REVOLUCIJA (THE COLORFUL REVOLUTION); the Guerilla actions as part of the revolution.

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