Borka Pavićević
Borka Pavićević (Борка Павићевић, 5 June 1947, Kotor, Montenegro, Yugoslavia - 30 June 2019, Belgrade, Serbia) was the founder and director of the Center for Cultural Decontamination (since 1994).
She graduated (1971) and obtained a master’s degree at the Academy for Theatre, Film, Radio and Television, in Belgrade (1976).
Dramatist, Theatre “Atelier 212,” Belgrade (10 years) and BITEF, Belgrade’s annual international festival of avant-garde theater (20 years). Dramatist in Zenica, Split, Skopje, Ljubljana, Subotica and Belgrade (1978-1991). Founder, “New Sensibility” theatre at old Belgrade brewery (1981). Participated in artistic movement “KPGT,” acronym for the word “theatre” in Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia and Macedonia (1984-1991). Artistic director, Belgrade Drama Theatre, removed after public and political statements (1993).
She is the recipient of the Otto Rene Castillo Award for Political Theatre, New York (2000); the Hiroshima Foundation Prize for Peace and Culture (2004); Osvajanje slobode (“Winning of Freedom”) prize, awarded by the Maja Maršićević Tasić Foundation to a woman “whose acts affirm the principles of human rights, rule of law, democracy and tolerance” (2005); Routes Award given by ECF, Amsterdam (2009/2010); The Government of the Republic of France, the Legion d’Honneur (2001). [1]
- Publications
- Moda: proleće-leto, jesen-zima 1991-1992, proleće-leto 1993, Belgrade: Beogradski krug, 1994, 138 pp. (Serbo-Croatian),(English)
- Na ex: postdejtonska moda, 1997-8, Belgrade: Damad, 1999, 115 pp. (Serbo-Croatian)
- Dosije Srbija: procena stvarnosti 90-ih godina : 5. oktobar - 15. oktobar 2001, Belgrade: Muzej "25. maj", 2001, 116 pp. Exh. cat.
- Dossier Serbien Einschätzung der Wirklichkeit der 90er Jahre: 19. November - 17. Dezember 2000, Berlin: Akademie der Künste, 2000, 84+[19] pp. (German)
- Studije konteksta: diverzitet diverziteta (editor, with Saša Ćirić and Aleksandra Sekulić), Belgrade: Centar za kulturnu dekontaminaciju, 2014, 164 pp. (Serbian),(English)
- Glava u torbi, Belgrade: Centar za kulturnu dekontaminaciju, 2017, 543 pp. Collection of author's essays from 2013-2016. (Serbian)
- "Testimony Borka Pavićević", in Theatre in the Context of the Yugoslav Wars, eds. Jana Dolečki, Senad Halilbašić, and Stefan Hulfeld, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp 37-43. DOI. (English)
- Interviews
- "Beginning to Clean the Air: Two Interviews from Belgrade, June 2000", Theater 31:1, Feb 2001, pp 27-33. DOI. (English)
- Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, Vladimir Kulic, "Nationalism and Catharsis. The Center for Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade", Cabinet 2, Spring 2001. Conversation with Borka Pavićević and Ana Miljanić. (English)
- About Borka Pavićević
- Latinka Perović, "Borka Pavićević (1947-2019): skica za biografiju", Peščanik.net, 5 Sep 2019.
- Links
- CZKD
- Tribute: Boris A. Novak (Danas).
- Wikipedia-SR