What does it mean to come home? Am I going towards new home or an option of home? Before the tragic flood

of devasted people who had to flee their homes in Syria, that has found a way, on foot through the Balkans, and

the region has seen its share of complete destruction and human tragedy. I was ten years old, when the country

I was born into, Yugoslavia, broke into pieces. What used to be a peaceful, colorful and above friendly, became the

platform of all unleashed hatred, aggression, and brutality. For years I struggled to cope with all the contemporary

nonsense, manipulation and power that has divided the once beautiful country into smaller sections, I happened to

be in one of them, and it has ever since felt as if the world I was born into, shrank to the size of a housing storage.

Newly imposed borders made us strangers, almost obliged to follow the mentality of division, segregation, and

nationalism. Power is an option, that should come with a strong sense of responsibility, no matter which sector it

molds, hence in politics, therefore, it should have been a prevailing and only dictating rule. However, we all know

well, that that is not the case, unfortunately. Nevertheless, the rebellion starts from within, and it is here where

walls can actually collide, every day, brick by brick.

*

The composition continues.

In light of our deep ambivalence about our global socio-economic situation, the question of the political

commitment, in art and elsewhere, seems to be calling out for alternatives that do not shy away into the usual

underground.The poetical, the individual act of defiance, a voice, sound, a repeating gesture as a poetical stance

and standing resistance. Composition No. 1, 2 & 3 saw JAŠA unravel in New York City, Folkestone and Atacama

desert on his own, what he did for six days a week, for 29 weeks, with a group of people, during the duration of

the performance, the same issues, the same questions.

In essence, the composition remains the same: ephemeral, gestural, a form of resistance, only now reacting to a

different context, as it molds in response to a delicate and menacing political climate. The core is an architecture

of resistance, which manifests actions through presence and language. Actions and interventions are spread

throughout the eight-day performance, reacting to the local, the temporal, a simplicity is fueled by the urgency

of the now, a repercussion in time and space, we must recoil quickly, react to what is happening around us, being

immediate and relevant.

(Reactionary—immediacy is the medium. Relevancy—say it out loud, now, instantly, perform,

proceed.)

There is tension under the surface. Egocentrism has swallowed us. Today’s rapidly changing day-to-day necessitates

action, comment, responsibility, response. We are in an urgent state of ideological crisis that has resulted in the

psychological breakdown of society. The situation needs constant attention, it requires reaction, as individuals

and as different groups as a whole. All of it was there from the beginning; it now depends on which elements

will surface through, which emotions will become the generator for a particular ideology. Art has always had the

responsibility of being both a catalyzer and generator. Punk as an attitude was a reaction to a stiffening tissue of

the era; Dada was significant opposition to boiling extremes that brought humanity to meet its most monstrous

side. In each inch of our bodies lies a potential disaster; as we are facing the most existential dilemmas on every

step, each cell can decide to deteriorate and bring out the worst in us while we are dreaming of beauty. At times,

it may be better to limit yourself than to continue the illusion of all accessible freedom, which ends in nothing less

than limitless ego. A lake of me-s to drown in, a lake of us to love me.

Alternative forms of communication do exist; visual, musical, symbols, patterns - what we need are regular

executions, to be exercised regularly. An exchange of situations creates the uniqueness of experiences. A Beuysian

gesture in its potential to transform society. A simple exchange; a catalyst for hope. An act that will be what

it is. Through repetition, gesture, and embrace, we reach the shores of ones most authentic self. In his recent

composition’s, JAŠA limits himself into a reverse situation - an honest way to face the self in front of self. Every

thought can deteriorate. Every character can have many shades. A manifestation of a contrasting process that

embraces aggression as emotion to give birth to the poetic. The obscurity of space reveals the preciousness of

each gesture, gestures that parallel and overlap in time and space. All in one body, a dance with gravity. Now. It is

time to scream in the face of absurdity. Only together can we erupt and break free. Openness. A dense cloud of

energy and spontaneity. When all is said and done, we transition into memory; we leave no trace.

All in one body we walk...