I'M SORRY... I'M NOT SORRY .
radio intervention

 

In ZAGREB, 7- 9 May 2008
on Radio Sljeme - 88,1 MHz
Urban Festival Zagreb
In collaboration with radio activists Nemeza

 

In WARSAW, 23 - 26 July 2008
on Radio Kampus - 97,1 FM
Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw

 

The piece consists of 3 parts:
- broadcast of the stataments
(2 or 3 days, every hours, 18 to 25 seconds)
- open telephone
(30 to 40 minutes of open call for the listeners)
- closing programme
(30 to 45 minutes of mosaic program about the piece&interviews&parts of open calls)

 

"I'm sorry that I used my connections to enrol my son in university. It would have been better (after all, for his sake as well) had he done it himself... I live in a society where it is possible that you never enrol anywhere you wish if you don't bribe, but still..."

"I'm not sorry that I was ripping off the firm where I used to work, the hourly wage was too small, in a way I was taking what I think belongs to me."

"I'm sorry because every time I'm looking for a connection to get my medical exam, I'd be happier if i could get my turn without any "gifts", but you know for yourself how things are..."

"I'm not sorry that I built my apartment without license, everyone does that."

 

Many things have changed around us in the past 10 years. From the notion that we / I are the main agents of change "in our state", to the much larger responsibility (and autonomy) in our personal lives. How aware have we become of our role in the community that we live in? Which decisions of ours were important for others as well, what have we done wrong (where doing nothing is also a choice!), are we aware of that, what do we think about that, could we have done it differently, can we do it differently now...

Andreja Kuluncic's media intervention uses short statements compiled from a representative sample of Zagreb's inhabitants, with the intention to put forward these and similar questions, to incite people to assess the responsibility of their contribution to the poor state of the society we live in. The work probes the relationship between the individual and the society in a surrounding where many agree that the rule of law doesn't function as it should, and yet the majority make their decisions contrary to the kind of community they would like to live in.