Lecture room, packed with people, flower arrangement close to microphone, mild afternoon mood; two armchairs, two upcoming speakers (one main speaker, one moderator); a backpack next to one armchair, a jacket hanging down from its backrest; camera rolling; small technical delay- audience grows familiar and louder. I shall draw here about details preceding the lecture, belonging to it and those from the afterwards gathering.

Partners in this reportage: Dr.Jelisaveta Blagojevic, lecturer at Faculty of Media and Communications, Singidunum University (Belgrade), ICI Kulturlabor Berlin

1. Before lecture 

 

The back row of chairs was, literally, transparent:

 

 

 

The typical gesture of one turning around to see who’s coming:

 

 

Working on the technical issue:

People in the audience establish contact:

 

 

The lecture is about to start:

 

 

 

2. Lecture

Displeasure of speaking into a microphone:

 

 

 

 

 

Jealousy/Jalousie:

 

 

Speaking style- verbalized parenthesis/accessory thoughts:

 

 

A film fragment was shown on a screen:

Question from the audience; people turning towards the one who raises it:

 

Someone with a very pale face, losing strength:

 

 

3. After Lecture gathering

Glasses off-the lecture is over:

Someone in the audience, industrious:

 

 

The crowd moved on the roof, for a snack and a drink. Perfect symmetry at the agape table:

 

 

Pattern on clothes, around the room: