{"id":130795,"date":"2026-09-25T15:33:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T13:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/?page_id=130795"},"modified":"2026-09-25T15:39:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T13:39:49","slug":"music-section","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/en\/science-portal\/aesthetics-laboratory-of-the-faculty-of-humanities-and-social-sciences\/music-section\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Section"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 6%; padding-right: 6%;\"><iframe style=\"float: right;\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/52NgeeF0HDA\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe>What is \u201cmusic\u201d to us who speak\/write\/think this? When and how does \u201cmusic\u201d happen to us? Is it anything other than the pure pleasure of SOUND, rhythm, melody, harmonies, chords and everything that moves our bodies to sway, bend and rock within its surroundings (or makes us hum a melody at certain moments of the day)?<\/p>\n<p>A rhetorical question\u2026 Of course, music is much more than that to us. Music is the energy that sets our \u2013 LIFE \u2013 in motion (and not only aesthetically, through sensory cognition). \u201cMy life is New Wave,\u201d as an urban punk fighter from this region once said. The first front of our \u201cstruggle\u201d is P(otpuno) U(vredljivo) N(egiranje) K(lasike) [Completely Offensive Negation of the Classics], as written on the cover of Darko Glavan\u2019s legendary booklet. But New Wave is also <em>nouvelle vague<\/em>\u2026 Structurally, music has quite a lot in common with the art of moving images. Does music, then, also have something to do with the very \u201cmatter of thinking\u201d? Again, rhetorically\u2026 For us at EstLab, it is also a decisive experience of the meaning of existence itself! We think music, listen to philosophy, watch literature, read films\u2026 Our fundamental experience of music is \u201cthe birth of the tragedy of our contemporaneity from the spirit of music\u201d. Or an event that transforms Pink Floyd (we love them!) into punk fluid. In other words, the experience that permeates us is the one that says: \u201cSpit Truth in the Eye\u201d (Buldo\u017eer, 1975). All of these are merely sketches of our conversations about music, listening sessions of musical <em>paideia<\/em>, and live performances. And Truth? Of course, we do not speak of it as something unquestionable\u2026 because today the \u201cmatter of thinking\u201d is the search for \u2013 MEANING. The meaning of \u201cmusical philosophy\u201d itself \u2013 from the spirit of punk and New Wave \u2013 is also RESISTANCE to what exists. Philosophically, this is the proposal of a \u201cnon-fascist life\u201d (Deleuze &amp; Guattari). Ergo: for us, music is the \u201cmetaphysics of real happiness\u201d (Badiou). Join us in the thoughtful\/meaningful adventure of everything that moves us, delights us\u2026 makes us happy!<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Music Section: <strong>Bo\u0161ko Pe\u0161i\u0107, Marijan Krivak and Boris Bosan\u010di\u0107<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">R e c e n t  E v e n t s<\/h1>\n<p><a name=\"sexon\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\" data-wahpro-titles-style=\"\" data-wahfont=\"23\">8 December 2025<br \/>\nSejo Sexon at EstLab, FFOS<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/najava_sejo-202x300.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-113683 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/najava_sejo-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/najava_sejo-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/najava_sejo.jpg 481w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a>On 8 December 1980, John Lennon was killed. On that day, with him, a certain \u201cspirit\u201d of rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll also disappeared while rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll \u201cwas still young\u201d. EstLab wanted to evoke Lennon\u2019s authenticity and playfulness through an equally sincere and, indeed, playful figure of the YU-ROCK scene \u2013 Sejo Sexon!<\/p>\n<p>The frontman, \u201csoul and body\u201d of ZABRANJENO PU\u0160ENJE, Davor Su\u010di\u0107 (aka SEJO SEXON), was a guest \u2013 through EstLab\u2019s new \u201cacquisition\u201d, Goran Faletar \u2013 on 8 December 2025, in a packed Room 39 at FFOS. He truly is a source of \u201cgood spirit\u201d, one of the \u201cSarajevo crowd\u201d, while ZABRANJENO PU\u0160ENJE is marking its longevity on the scene with its fourth (4th!) consecutive \u201cunplugged concert\u201d in Osijek.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/sejo_sexon_2-300x225.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-113859 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/sejo_sexon_2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/sejo_sexon_2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/sejo_sexon_2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/sejo_sexon_2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>During the conversation, the audience had an opportunity to learn about the origins of one of the longest-running \u2013 and also one of the most important \u2013 rock bands of the former Yugoslavia, as well as hear testimony about the pivotal moments when Su\u010di\u0107 revived the band in 1997 with the definitive album <em>FILD\u017dAN VI\u0160KA<\/em>. It was also a triumphant entry onto the Croatian rock scene. At that point, after many years spent in the background behind Nenad Jankovi\u0107 (aka Dr NELE KARAJLI\u0106), SEJO SEXON stepped into the \u201cspotlight\u201d in the best possible way as guitarist, singer and principal songwriter of ZP.<\/p>\n<p>During the conversation, we also learned that \u201cDAID\u017dA\u201d, Elvis J. Kurtovi\u0107 (Mirko Srdi\u0107), pushed the major hit \u201cMo\u017ee\u0161 imat moje tijelo\u201d as the only song from the album <strong><em>Fild\u017ean Vi\u0161ka<\/em><\/strong> written in \u201cproper\u201d Croatian\u2026 We also learned that, for Sejo Sexon, <strong><em>the essence of rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>lies in the openness and sincerity of songs and music<\/em><\/strong>, something ZABRANJENO PU\u0160ENJE has been offering its audience for more than four decades. Indeed, through this event, 45 years after Lennon\u2019s death, the spirit of \u201crock and roll\u201d was revived once again, together with that of \u201cGood Friends\u201d: Sejo Sexon and his devoted audience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>mk<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\"><iframe title=\"EstLab - Neu\u0161tekani razgovor - gost Sejo Sexon\" width=\"1170\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ru9RDSmaCk8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a name=\"kocijancic\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\" data-wahpro-titles-style=\"\" data-wahfont=\"23\">11 November 2025<br \/>\nEstLab Conversation with Paraf Frontman Valter Kocijan\u010di\u0107: \u201cAnd the Day Had Started So Beautifully\u201d<\/h2>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/najava_kocijancic-300x297.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-112654\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/najava_kocijancic-300x297.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/najava_kocijancic-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/najava_kocijancic-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/najava_kocijancic.jpg 718w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>And the day ended so beautifully<\/em> with a conversation and encounter with a representative of punk, a <em>free spirit<\/em> and an authentic example of a rock poet, Valter Kocijan\u010di\u0107, bearer of the original, primordial sound of <em>Paraf<\/em>. Students and lovers of <em>music of resistance<\/em> had the opportunity not only to listen but to <strong>experience punk<em>,<\/em><\/strong> on 11 November in a lecture hall at FFOS, where, through a kind of listening session, we travelled back to a time when young people uncompromisingly sought their place in the universe and, with memorable melodies and simple lyrics, <strong>hit straight in the head<\/strong> anyone looming over them (even when it was the <em>People\u2019s Militia<\/em>). Valter vividly showed us that this period gave punk its maxim: YOUNG PEOPLE who ACT in search of their FUTURE. In his lyrics, Valter described and portrayed what was happening around him, just as it was, the realities of everyday life; the goal was not to theorise, but to signal that we were dissatisfied and to move (as another punker\/rocker would say: <em>move, change<\/em>). Punk was not merely the scream of hopeless youth unable to submit to authority; no, the punk of a band such as <em>Paraf<\/em> was a powerful expression of those who believed in a <em>movement of free spirits<\/em> who, through their <em>rebelliousness<\/em>, overthrow <em>regimes<\/em>(?) whose sole aim is to suppress all <em>action<\/em> and change:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/valter_kocijancic-300x290.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-112862\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/valter_kocijancic-300x290.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/valter_kocijancic-300x290.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/valter_kocijancic.jpg 767w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Everything is in perfect order<br \/>\nThe yellow lines are respected<br \/>\nChildren happily wave their little flags<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And something tells me something tells me<br \/>\nSomething tells me something tells me<br \/>\n(You are infected you are infected<br \/>\nYou are infected you are infected)<\/p>\n<p>Valter testified to this, and we, lovers of punk, pass it on: our own times also need punk, they need young people who, if not ready to act, will at least detect the existing (metastasised) <em>cancers of society<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Luka Priji\u0107<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/uHLdzYob-Qg\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/uHLdzYob-Qg<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"kostelnik\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\" data-wahpro-titles-style=\"\" data-wahfont=\"23\">15 April 2025<br \/>\nCompletely Offensive Negation of the Classics \u2013 guest Branko Kostelnik<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/najava_kostelnik-203x300.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104322\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/najava_kostelnik-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/najava_kostelnik-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/najava_kostelnik-694x1024.jpg 694w, https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/najava_kostelnik-768x1134.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/najava_kostelnik.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a>Room 39 at FFOS <em>buzzed<\/em> and <em>rumbled<\/em> that Tuesday, 15 April 2025. And for a good hour and a half! What was happening? What caused this tectonic phenomenon at FFOS? <em>Cui bono<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>For those who still do not know, we attempted to answer the question: What is PUNK? EstLab was joined by Branko Kostelnik, Head of the Programme and Exhibition Activities Department at Zagreb\u2019s Museum of Contemporary Art, a sociologist of culture, lecturer at VERN\u2026 But, most importantly for us, a long-standing rock critic, historian, producer and organiser of rock concerts. Together with him, we attempted to answer the aforementioned question, namely: <em>what is PUNK<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/kostelnik-300x225.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-104926\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/kostelnik-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/kostelnik-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/kostelnik-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/kostelnik-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/kostelnik-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/kostelnik.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>For a good hour and a half, we discussed the meaning of punk music, its habitus, and its significance for the possibility of young people \u2013 but also all those who once listened to it and those who still devotedly present and practise it today \u2013 to change the social circumstances in which they live. Or at least to point toward an artistic \u201crhythm of rebellion\u201d\u2026 The CLASH, SEX PISTOLS, The JAM\u2026 Talking Heads, RAMONES, Television\u2026 STIFF LITTLE FINGERS, Gang of Four, TOM ROBINSON Band\u2026 all of them fundamentally shaped the formative years of the two interlocutors. The conversation attempted to make clear that the humanities in particular \u2013 if they still wish to survive at all \u2013 cannot do so without the inspiration left to us by the music of <em>punk<\/em> and <em>New Wave<\/em>. Did all of this reach the young people at the Faculty, our students? Out of the corner of my eye (and ear!), I saw the young bodies present surrendering themselves to the PLEASURE of that \u201crhythm of rebellion\u201d. And what better proof could there be that the purpose of this conversation and music had been fulfilled?<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>mk<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\"><iframe title=\"EstLab - Potpuno Uvredljivo Negiranje Klasike - gost Branko Kostelnik\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J-SDhpg7wEI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h2 data-wahpro-titles-style=\"\" data-wahfont=\"23\"><a name=\"lovsin\"><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\" data-wahpro-titles-style=\"\" data-wahfont=\"23\">8 October 2024<br \/>\n<strong>Music of RESISTANCE AND FREEDOM \u2013 40 Years after the Red Album: guest Pero Lov\u0161in<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/lovsin-243x300.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-91555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/lovsin-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/lovsin-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/lovsin-768x949.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/lovsin.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a>Room 39 at our Faculty, <strong>on Tuesday, 8 October 2024<\/strong>, echoed with punk. We hosted <strong>Pankrti<\/strong>, of course, through their \u201cspokesman\u201d. At the first EstLab forum of the new season, <strong>Peter Lov\u0161in<\/strong> spoke with the author of these lines. A favourite \u201crebel with a cause\u201d from some of our long-gone days, Pero uncompromisingly revealed before a packed audience the artistic provocation of punk; of Pankrti. It became clear that he still has something to say to new generations. Loud and clear, through music and words. Alongside the presentation of their \u201c<strong>Red Album<\/strong>\u201d and a discussion of Pankrti and their resistance to the rigid socialist regime, the conversation also addressed the political-cultural solidarity of bands (and other artists) across the territory of the former Yugoslavia.<\/p>\n<p><em>FROM THE ANNOUNCEMENT: Freedom? What does freedom mean<\/em>? Or\u2026 Freedom? What does FREEDOM mean (to us)? As the local \u2013 though, alas, long-gone! \u2013 rock poet and undisputed Messiah of this region once said: \u201cFreedom is not the mutual caressing of idiotic heads\u2026 Freedom is a Woman, take her.\u201d And YES, one day in that mythical year 1977, Gregor Tomc travelled to London to bring back evidence of that FREEDOM\u2026 in the form of vinyl records. Naturally, it was \u2013 the then emerging \u2013 PUNK. It was a \u201ccry of freedom\u201d. And all this at the conservative dawn of Anglo-Saxon neoliberalism. Down south, in the westernmost republic of Yugoslavia, there appeared\u2026 PANKRTI. In the spirit of the anarchic cry that \u201cthey don\u2019t know what they want\u2026 but they know how to get it\u201d (Sex Pistols), these <strong><em>Bastards<\/em><\/strong> entered the Yugoslav rock scene like a <em>storm<\/em> sweeping away everything before it. This \u201cstorm\u201d, this <em>rumble<\/em>, struck the SC Gallery in Zagreb in late autumn of \u201977. The aforementioned poet welcomed his Ljubljana comrades with the lyrics of his first single: \u201cI shave my beard and moustache to look like Pankrti\u201d (Azra, <em>Balkan<\/em>, 1979). Although Houra\u2019s (or actually Cvetkovi\u0107\u2019s!?) <em>Kazali\u0161te<\/em> beat them to the release of a debut album \u2013 while the landmark debut by Rijeka\u2019s <em>Paraf<\/em> appeared somewhat later \u2013 PANKRTI conceived and shaped their long-playing record most convincingly. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_xekKeGc0bE&amp;t=1494s\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_xekKeGc0bE&amp;t=1494s<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/lovsin3-300x225.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-92331\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/lovsin3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/lovsin3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/lovsin3-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/lovsin3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/lovsin3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/lovsin3.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Dolgcajt<\/em><\/strong> was the most authentic image of growing up amid the greyness of torn-up city streets, in what was then a deadly boring Ljubljana. (Whose <em>illness<\/em> the <em>boys<\/em> from Kodeljevo and \u0160i\u0161ka had already described in the single \u201cLublana je bulana\u201d.) From <em>Kruh in igre<\/em> to <em>Podgane iz Ljubljane<\/em>\u2026 It was a cultural SCANDAL. An artistic-political provocation <em>par excellence<\/em>. But also pure ENERGY, something unprecedented in this region until then. Naturally, this could not pass without a State Award!(?) \u2013 the \u201cSeven Secretaries of SKOJ\u201d. <strong><em>State favourites<\/em><\/strong>, then, Pankrti(!), long before their fellow citizens from Laibach, employed <em>overidentification<\/em> as an artistic excess (visible on the cover of their second album <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zp8Z16C0Gqs\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zp8Z16C0Gqs<\/a>). \u201cBehind the Iron Curtain, old women pull a <strong>red<\/strong> beet.\u201d Was that <em>irony<\/em>? Hmmm\u2026<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/lovsin2-300x225.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-92337\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/lovsin2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/lovsin2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/lovsin2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/lovsin2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/lovsin2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/lovsin2.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Anyway<\/em>, now for the main point. Forty years ago came the strongest blow against the stale ideological slogans of an already weary socialist Yugoslavia. <strong><em>RED ALBUM<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 was it subversion? Or was it a <em>revival<\/em> of authentic \u201ccommunism and FREEDOM\u201d!? Does the language of music still think critically about the reality it sings of and depicts? Are there still young and rebellious musicians with an idea\/message? Hmmm\u2026 Neither Pero\u2019s Ljubljana nor the Ljubljana of the revolutionary-minded Pankrti is the same anymore. Everything is different\u2026 and sadder. Yet a ray of light appeared at the end of this musical conversation. The young people present, FFOS students, spontaneously enjoyed themselves (some even jumping!) to Pankrti\u2019s anthem, the rebellious \u201cBandiera Rossa\u201d!<\/p>\n<p>mk<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\"><iframe title=\"EstLab - Muzika otpora i slobode - gost Pero Lov\u0161in\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YLL2xUfZcmw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h2 data-wahpro-titles-style=\"\" data-wahfont=\"23\"><a name=\"seper\"><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\" data-wahpro-titles-style=\"\" data-wahfont=\"23\">9 January 2024<br \/>\nEstLab Forum \u201cArt and Activism\u201d \u2013 guest Kornel \u0160eper and members of the Slama Association \u2013 \u0160imun Padovan, Hrvoje De\u0161i\u0107 and Marko Pernar\u010di\u0107<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/umjetnost_aktivizam-2-248x300.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-78104\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/umjetnost_aktivizam-2-248x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"372\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/umjetnost_aktivizam-2-248x300.png 248w, https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/umjetnost_aktivizam-2-846x1024.png 846w, https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/umjetnost_aktivizam-2-768x930.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/umjetnost_aktivizam-2.png 891w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px\" \/><\/a>In keeping with EstLab\u2019s original idea, namely the educational role of art, the first conversation of the year was held on Tuesday, 9 January 2024, in Room 39 with people who stand out from the crowd \u2013 people we like to highlight precisely because they themselves rarely do so. Zagreb\u2019s Mo\u010dvara Club and the associated URK (Association for the Development of Culture) were presented as unique phenomena on the Croatian art scene since the 1990s. EstLab member Tanja Grade\u010dak spoke about Mo\u010dvara and URK with one of their conceptual initiators, Kornel \u0160eper, while reflections of the events in and around Mo\u010dvara and URK could also be found in the story of Slamanje and the Osijek-based Slama Association, represented by \u0160imun Padovan, Hrvoje De\u0161i\u0107 and Marko Pernar\u010di\u0107 (Hrvoje and Marko are, incidentally, our alumni, so FFOS truly has something to be proud of :).<\/p>\n<p>It became clear that the beginnings of both Mo\u010dvara and Slamanje were connected with the need to escape the stagnation of everyday life and an environment that too often constrains people through prescribed patterns of behaviour and entertainment, something young people \u2013 and those somewhat less young \u2013 are constantly seeking alternatives to. Driven by a need to hear and create something different from the cultural offerings of the late 1980s and early 1990s, Kornel began by playing music in his local community centre that could not be heard on the radio or in Zagreb clubs at the time. He then became involved with avant-garde artists gathered around Kugla Glumi\u0161te and, bringing together friends and acquaintances of similar convictions within the Association for the Development of Culture, travelled a path from squatting in Kuglana and adventures on the Ponikve meadow to the struggle for a venue in the former Jedinstvo factory, where Mo\u010dvara remains today as it approaches its 25th anniversary. The activities of Mo\u010dvara and another of Kornel\u2019s projects, Zli bubnjari, were often connected with protest actions through which they helped various civil society organisations promote the active participation of citizens and young people in decisions affecting their lives. Despite this, Kornel does not describe himself either as an artist, although he has played in the band \u0160umski for years, or as an activist, even though what he does through the association and club could, in retrospect, be called prototypical activism. The point is that all the ideas and events connected with him and his collaborators arise organically from the need to act, without any particular master plan or ambition. This is also why the story of financing the association and club through projects is inevitably connected with what the Mo\u010dvara community calls \u201cadministrative violence\u201d, because it forces people into prescribed frameworks and consumes energy on paperwork that could otherwise be invested in organising concerts and exhibitions or publishing albums and books.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/umjet_aktivizam-300x228.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-78110\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/umjet_aktivizam-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/umjet_aktivizam-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/umjet_aktivizam-1024x777.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/umjet_aktivizam-768x583.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/umjet_aktivizam.jpg 1476w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>The story of Mo\u010dvara is perhaps the best example of how undertakings of this kind very often require one enthusiastic and creative individual, but also how, without a community of people who share and spread that enthusiasm, many initiatives would either fail or never begin. Another example was provided by the interlocutors from Osijek\u2019s Slama Association, \u0160imun, Hrvoje and Marko Pernar\u010di\u0107, musicians gathered around the bands Harvo Jay and \u010cuvarku\u0107a and the Slamanje project, who have intertwined visual art and music in many different and surprising ways. In doing so, they demonstrate how this grassroots movement \u2013 the need to be different and other, often unrecognised by official institutions \u2013 always remains somewhere in the background and occasionally erupts in beautiful volcanoes of creativity. The struggle for a physical space in which people seeking artistic events can gather, and the need to maintain continuity, were what \u0160imun highlighted as most important when it comes to alternative and so-called <em>underground<\/em> initiatives. This is the educational aspect to which we repeatedly returned, because we concluded that offering young people an opportunity to discover music and art different from what YouTube and Spotify algorithms expose them to is the only way to resist the violence of kitsch and the commercialisation of art, an overwhelming trend to which we are subjected almost every day. Particularly important in this respect was Hrvoje\u2019s statement that he creates music for himself, not for the needs of <em>software<\/em> that analyses melodies and rhythms in order to identify those likely to attract the most listeners and potentially generate the most money. The conversation also turned to the role of artificial intelligence in creating works of art and, as Marko concluded, he sees no particular danger in it; it is simply a fact, just as it is a fact that art often operates within Aristotle\u2019s mimetic theory of imitating reality and others.<\/p>\n<p>It became clear that Kornel, \u0160imun, Hrvoje and Marko, guided by an aesthetics of the different, the strange and often the absurd \u2013 perhaps precisely because, as Umberto Eco suggests, the ugly and the different are actually more interesting \u2013 have turned their associations into sources of activism opposed to the social and artistic <em>mainstream<\/em>. Mo\u010dvara and URK were, and remain, a kind of incubator on whose stage numerous Croatian and international artists of different profiles have performed or honed their craft, while Slama and Slamanje, in the almost intimate, squatter-like atmosphere of Osijek\u2019s Tvr\u0111a, radiate their own specific creative energy. Just as Mo\u010dvara has for years placed Zagreb on the international map of alternative and subversive culture, informing and educating tens of thousands of visitors, Slama is a place where the energy of young people is channelled into something purely positive, inviting us to look at the more beautiful side of the world in which we live.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\"><iframe title=\"EstLab tribina - Umjetnost i aktivizam\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tvdb91ZopGQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a name=\"vesic\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\" data-wahpro-titles-style=\"font-size: 23px;\" data-wahfont=\"23\">7 November 2023<br \/>\nEstLab Forum \u201cAs If It Had Once Been\u201d \u2013 guest Du\u0161an Vesi\u0107<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Vesic_Vizual-2-192x300.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-73809\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Vesic_Vizual-2-192x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"351\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Vesic_Vizual-2-192x300.png 192w, https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Vesic_Vizual-2.png 526w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/><\/a>On Tuesday, 7 November 2023, EstLab members and friends had an opportunity to discuss a topic that rarely fails to arouse particular interest among music lovers, considering its unparalleled artistic, sentimental and epochal significance. For some of those present in the audience and on stage \u2013 mostly the more mature among us \u2013 it represents nothing less than a decisive cultural current that simply seemed destined to be born and take shape in this region, precisely the current in which they themselves once found their place. For others (those who never had the opportunity to witness first-hand the colossal concerts and performances in the basement of the Faculty), it cannot fail to evoke a sense of profound historical and creative fascination.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/vesic2-300x225.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-73815\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/vesic2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/vesic2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/vesic2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/vesic2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We are, of course, speaking about the music of the \u201cNew Wave\u201d; rock and YU-punk in this region, a phenomenon that few people are more qualified to discuss than Du\u0161an Vesi\u0107, one of the most prominent rock critics and a frequent companion of Yugoslav musicians. Above all, he is a man who \u2013 as the title of his book <em>Imagine a Life<\/em> suggests \u2013 was immersed in this entire story in a way that may today seem unimaginable to some, truly: \u201cas if it had once been\u201d. It is true: \u201cAll of it came out of Buldo\u017eer in one way or another\u201d, yet it is evident that \u201cHaustor\u201d and \u201cPrljavo kazali\u0161te\u201d can still inspire people who are now the same age as their original audience to sing along, something few performers anywhere in the world can boast of. Few creative movements, let alone a \u201cwave\u201d, produce such a wealth of expression in the music of a single generation, which is why comparisons according to contemporary standards are entirely inappropriate. Who was the best? The most important? \u201cAzra\u201d or \u201cValjak\u201d? And what about \u201cPankrti\u201d? \u201cParaf\u201d\u2026 \u201cTermiti\u201d? Who played the bigger concert or sold more tickets? Who played in a basement, and who in an arena? Is <em>Sun\u010dana strana ulice<\/em> more successful than <em>S&#8217; vetrom uz lice<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>The answers to these questions are as impossible as they are irrelevant. What matters, however, is recognising why that creative period flourished with creativity to the extent that it did, what conditions enabled its emergence, and why it became a source of such sincere nostalgia among those who experienced it first-hand. The fact is that \u2013 at least in this region \u2013 no creative movement has emerged after the \u201cNew Wave\u201d that could rival the versatile vision of the 1980s. Yet one thing we have not given up on is continuing to ask the question: \u201ccould there still be another one?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>ab<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\"><iframe title=\"EstLab - Drugom stranom - Epilog: Novovalna glazba. 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