Sadness

December 1992 - August 1993
With Škart (Dragan Protić and Djordje Balmazović)
Weekly poems, street and media actions, and photographic posters

23 Sadness poems in Serbo-croation and 11 in English (translated by David Albahari)

Small weekly poems printed and stamped on cardboards in early 1990s Serbia. Supported by donations of friends, and read on public radio, these poems were distributed to passersby during a number of street actions (an empty department store, Belgrade railway station, packages for Sarajevo, a snowed-in park, a sunflower field). Poems were also mailed anonymously to friends around the world. Project includes a series of ten photographic posters (images by Vesna Pavlović), put on hidden and public walls of the city.

the sadness of potential travelers

travelers
do not travel.

something
takes them away
and brings them back.

(changing places
is not travelling).

travellers
travel sadly.

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last stop belgrade
december 1992

tuga potencijalnih putnika

putnici
ne putuju.

nešto ih
odnosi
i donosi.

(premeštanje
nije putovanje.)

putnici
tužno putuju.

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beograd, decembra 1992.