Nebojsa Milikić at Summer School as School 2022
August 13, 2022, 12:00
Venue: Boxing Club

The occasion for a question: Who is not cutting off the hedgehog’s quills in 1969?

Is a bunch of old numbers of “Hedgehog” (“JEŽ”, the humorist magazine from Socialist Yugoslavia) an opportunity to try to better understand the relationship between the players, the foreplay and the interplay between the ruling ideology and ideologies of the rulers in the SFRY.

Presentation will try to focus on questions such as: Did caricatures in “JEŽ” justifiably and objectively criticized negative social phenomena that were, among other things, a consequence of the reforms of the 1960s? If they did not present them objectively and justifiably, the question would be why government did allow (and largely financed) their publication? Is it possible to understand how and why Hedgehog got the quills cut (by censorship) later, whether as a dissident or as an oppositionist?

Biography:
Nebojša Milikić is a Cultural worker and producer who lives and works in Belgrade, Serbia. Since 1990 he has been engaged in political activism, organizational, artistic and curatorial practice in visual and relational arts, independent research, as well as writing and debating about cultural and social problems. Milikić participates in a number of independent research projects and activist campaigns domestically and abroad. From 1999 onward he has worked in the Cultural Center Rex in Belgrade, as the initiator and coordinator of various programs and projects. He is a member of the initiative No To Rehabilitation and the non-governmental cultural organization ReEX, dedicated to the struggle against historical revisionism and negationism. Milikić critically writes on culture and politics and publishes on various activist and art portals. He recently edited several publications in Serbia and Romania about the political and cultural positioning of today’s middle classes.