He Loves Me Not: Marriage and Migration in the Work of Tanja Ostojić

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of Ethnic and Migration Studies 36, no. 10 (2010). Marriage witnesses Jelica Radovanović and Dejan Andjelković wrote that at the marriage itself, what they called a second performance, the only other people present were the registrar, the court interpreter, and a photographer. “Contrary to [the couple’s] first meeting,” they write, “this performance was not poeticised, being restricted to its administrative significance only.” They add that “certain elements of confusion and out-of-place laughter were evident to the registrar—who was not let in on the artistic structure of the event.” (Taken from a short text by Radovanović and Andjelković, included in Ostojić’s handmade The Wedding Book.) 6 Among the ex-Yugoslav republics, only Slovenia and Croatia have since joined the European Union, respectively in 2004 and 2013. At the start of Ostojić’s project in 2000, Serbia was not yet an EU candidate. Over a decade later, in 2012, Serbia was granted EU candidate status, which it still holds today. See European Commission, “European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations,” European Commission, July 12, 2016, accessed February 10, 2019, https://ec.europa.eu/ neighbourhood-enlargement/ countries/detailed-country-information/serbia_en. Serbia’s accession depends on its ability to display a “firm commitment to European values” and a “track record” that proves the nation aligns with the European Union’s principles. The country must adjust, Ivana Dizdar HE LOVES ME NOT: MARRIAGE AND MIGRATION IN THE WORK OF TANJA OSTOJIĆ