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METROPOLIE TRANS [1985-1990] mixed media project (graphics, videos, films, fanzines, music, texts) produced by Goran Lišnjić from Osijek, Croatia.

The project also involved by Mladen Pavlović, DP and Goran Šerbedžić.

From the beginning of the 1980s a large number of independent activist groups were created in Yugoslavia, mostly in Ljubljana, Belgrade and Zagreb. By summer 1989, for example, there were independent pacifist and environmentalist groups in Ljubljana, Belgrade and Zagreb; independent feminist groups in Ljubljana, Belgrade and Zagreb; independent human rights groups in Ljubljana, Belgrade and Titiograd; the Association for the Advancement of Democratic Process in Nikic; the Association of Unemployed in Bijelo Polje; the Commitee for the Protection of Artistic Freedom in Belgrade; the Commitee for Defense of Freedom of Thought in Belgrade; a gay rights movement in Ljubljana; and independent multimedia artistic groups in Ljubljana (Neue Slowenische Kunst), Osijek (Metropolie Trans), Skopje (Aporea), Zagreb (NEP/Nova Evropa), and Ruma (Autopsia).

(From: Social currents in Eastern Europe: the sources and consequences of the great transformation, Sabrina Petra Ramet, 1995, Duke University Press)

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