How Art Communicates Social Change: A Case Study on Student Occupation of Student’s Cultural Centre in Belgrade During the 2024/2025

Novaković, Nevena (2025) How Art Communicates Social Change: A Case Study on Student Occupation of Student’s Cultural Centre in Belgrade During the 2024/2025. In: The Barcelona Conference on Arts, Media & Culture: Conference Programme and Abstract Book (BAMC2025. The International Academic Forum, Nagoya (Japan), p. 84. ISBN 2433-7544

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Abstract

Anthropologist David Leach (1983) defined every culture as communication, and thus, art is also communication. Art or exibition is a message itself, and it has what every communication must: a sender, the content of the message, and a recepient. This research explores the cultural and political needs of young people, the articulation of those needs during times of social upheaval and change, as well as the content of cultural production by young artists and humanities students who shared their days and nights in the Student Cultural Center in Belgrade embracing innovative ideas of community and leadership and bringing to life, perhaps a new cultural wave in Serbia and Balkans, since their art programs are regional. This case study will analyze the political and social motives and objectives of the students who occupied the Student Cultural Center in Belgrade, as well as the content of their program inspired by the protests and propagating and leading change, with a special focus on the part they themselves authored - visual arts. The case study itself has interdisciplinary approach combining sociology of art, cultural studies and anthrophology with the implementation of sociological method - content analysis and interview with the young people currently living in Student's Cultural Center in Belgrade.

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