Borka Pavicevic

Dramaturg and irrepressible cultural activist, Borka Pavićević has devoted her career to art as a form of expression that can and must combat a politics of fear. In 1995 she established the Center for Cultural Decontamination (CZKD), a vital resource and independent cultural space in the heart of Belgrade. Up against the state-oppression and war-propaganda of the Milosevic-regime, the aim of the Center was to bring different performers, artists and intellectuals together to produce cultural strategies as a means to ‘decontaminate’ the Serbian society of the negative atmosphere of xenophobia, ethnic hatred and nationalism during the civil war in former Yugoslavia. Now, with the increase of populist political movements throughout Europe, the strategies of decontamination are arguably as relevant as when the Center first opened its doors.