"O S(A)VESTI" is a performance about Dada Vujasinović, a journalist from the newspaper "Duga" who reported from the battlefield in the first years of the wars of the 1990s, and then wrote openly, clearly and truthfully about the events on the political and social scene of our country. She lost her life under unexplained circumstances on April 8, 1994. She was thirty years old.
Dada Vujasinović was my childhood friend. We belonged to the same, as she called us, "sacrificed generation", which the wars of the nineties left deep scars, invisible or tangible.
Uncleared traces of that time suffocate this present. The unexplained death of a brave young woman adds to the general paralysis and hopelessness of the country, which has yet to prove if it has the strength to fight the ghosts of the past. To prove whether there is enough awareness and conscience to develop into a state of justice and security where our children will want to stay."
Like any essay, this one contains footnotes that appear at the very beginning. Footnotes consist of fragments of memories and data, as well as artistic interventions, which, like pieces of a puzzle, will eventually depict the life and work of Dada Vujasinović, as well as the time of her growing up and suffering, with special reference to the last four years of her life. The audience has the opportunity to choose the order in which the footnotes will be revealed / displayed in the space, through text, video work, scene, intervention in the space. The essay itself takes place at the end of the play.
The play uses the texts of Bertold Brecht, Sandra Vujasinović, Aleksandar Tirnanić, Radislav Vujasinović, Ljubomir Stojadinović, Seka Vujasinović, Jelena Veljković, Sanja Krsmanović Tasić, and parts of "Letters (1990-1994)" from the book "Testimonies (From the Land of Obsession)" by Dada Vujasinović. The letters are addressed to Dada's bestie friend Aleksandra Sanja Vujanić and sister Sandra.
The play used a recording of Vukašin Krsmanović from 1969, a recording of the UTISAK NETELJE show from 1993, a RTS recording of Tito's funeral, photos from the family albums of the Vujasinović and Krsmanović families, as well as photos of Zoran Tatar. In the BLOK footnote, the chorus of the song "Blok brate" by the group FTP is used. Journalism students of the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade were interviewed in the DANAS footnote.
