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The lowdown: five queer artists in Europe
Article published on Aug. 9, 2013
Being a queer artist is easy. Having an impact is harder; making a community more accessible to others. From Hungary, where an amendment to the constitution explicitly limited marriage as only possibly being between a man and a woman in March, to Bosnia and Herzegovina, queer artists are changing mentalities. Kati, Mel, Tonci, Andrea and Dorothee explain their stories.
Mel, Bosnia
'In Bosnia, the term ‘queer art’ is always misunderstood,' says Melisa Ljubovich, 23. 'It is not specified in the artistic scene, and desperately needs to become more commonly used. Queer art isn’t that free in Bosnia, it’s progressing. The LGBT community knows the meaning of the term, but they stick closely to ‘art’ and don’t question the issue. I come from a family with an artistic tradition. I’ve always been involved in art projects, movements and colonies. I never specified my art as queer before reading about the theory and culture. Eventually the people I get to know who call themselves queer artists are no longer that queer. They start to act like old academic shitty people.'
Mel lives her queer life to the full capacity, and is teaching young people to be queer artists, even traveling to Vienna to do so. 'Croatia and Serbia are quite advanced at promoting queer art and events, but Macedonia has more transparent queer artists.'