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Conflict and Renewal: Europe Transformed. Essays in Honour of Wolfgang Petritsch
Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2007, 407 pp.


Chapter 7. Bosnia and Herzegovina Beyond Dayton
Sarajevo, 24 June 2014

by Chris Keulemans


"As dusk falls after another sweltering day, Enes Zlatar walks out into the courtyard of the Museum for Contemporary Art to smoke a cigarette. The opening of Gavrilo's Principles has gone well. His staff have performed miracles, and his concept definitely hit a nerve among artists and audience alike. Insanity Is Not A Crime, Young and Decisive, Hate Thy Neighbour, Conspiracy Theories Always Come True, Emperors Don't Work, The Beauty of Contingency and Never Act on An Empty Stomach - all the principles Enes defined for successful nation-building sparked the imagination, as the installations and performances on this first day of the grand centennial exhi-bition proved. Artists from Madrid, Beirut, Prishtina, Baghdad, Kigali, New York, London, Hamburg, Minsk, Belgrade and Johannesburg had picked up immediately on what he meant. (...)"


Chris Keulemans is writer and journalist