Liminal Belgrade and Social Practice

Abstract

This article is a product of master students engaged in the course Expressive methods in adult education at the Faculty of Philosophy, department of andragogy and the art project they conducted. We, as young people who just finished their studies or who are soon going to, all end up being caught in the catch 22 of the labor market, where we are required to have unrealistic amount of work experience to get a job, but also need a job to get experience. Being trapped in this situation, we identified with the concept of liminality. We decided to explore this concept by combining it with the liminality of our city and capturing abandoned and in-between spaces. Taking into observation that the problem of unemployment is a much wider and deeper issue, that’s not effecting just our personal lives, but almost every social category, our project was transformed into social practice. The realization of the project wouldn’t be possible if there weren’t more people included in this project, who helped us with their ideas and different experiences in conceiving and shaping this project and getting us out of the liminality of this process itself in times when we felt hesitant about what our next steps should be. Thus, the aim of this article is to give an inside view of the entire process of designing and implementing a socially engaged art project, while exploring its connection with art in education and street art, and discovering their learning potentials.