Our integrity and idea gained respect

"WEATHER" Eurovision like this, on the first ball, how was that whole experience for you?? How filled you are with that experience right now? Do you have the feeling that you were in a good place??

ANA ĐURIĆ KONSTRAKT: It's not that I didn't ask myself many times what I was doing there, since our performance and song is something that comes out of the usual picture of Eurovision. I actually wondered what I was achieving by doing so, since I had no diversionary ambitions, and our performance is diversionary starting from the fact that I am not a gorgeous singer, to the fact that we don't have a golden cage and fire on stage, but a basin and a towel. I had the same feeling before the performance at the national contest, Eurovision Song Contest. However, both in Serbia and at Eurovision, there was recognition and I can even say - respect for what we do. The reasons for that are various and I'm not sure I can spell them out quickly, but I have the impression that there is still some desire among people for content that has an idea, and a performance that has some integrity. Bottom line, I was in a good place - good weather, good people and good espresso.

It is a huge production, as well as the biggest stage in the world, considering the number of people who follow the events on it at the same time. How much space there is for art and message?

01-16

This is primarily an entertainment program, and occasionally a country presents itself with a slightly more complex performance, if such an approach is previously recognized at the national selection. Also, this program is often used for political discussions, but that is another topic. Eurovision itself, it seems to me, also for its own image, organizes recognition for artistic performance - an award Marcel Besançon, chosen by commentators from all participating countries. This year we received that award, and last year, for example, Barbara Pravi. As far as we are concerned, we got the space this time, and everything else is a matter of the individual's desire to go as far as reading. Someone stops at hand-wringing and clapping, without any need to know what it's really about. At the other extreme, someone inscribes incredible meanings into a song.

Have you fulfilled at least part of your dreams that you had when you started to get serious about music and your expression in it?? What dreams did you have in the beginning?? How much your reality today has to do with them?

At the beginning, I had ambitions, but not too big, for people to hear and understand me. Well, I also wanted music to be fun and to earn some money. Over time, I realized them to a small extent and to a greater extent accepted my own capacities and the capacities of these spaces. Today, my basic ambitions are to have time to think, to make my children happy, to drink coffee with myself in the morning, to hang out with people I like to listen to and everything in that style. So that's years. As far as music is concerned, it would be ideal to be able to make a song when I feel like it and when I have the desire to say something and perform less for more money.

In corpo sano it deals with mental health as much as physical. Why did that post-pandemic message resonate so strongly in our region? And why all over Europe?

In coprore sano it is not so much related to covid. Covid just nailed taking care of the body as a duty. What interested me above all is our disorientation and lack of protection when it comes to health, and that in an atmosphere where health is set as the highest value and goal. We are disoriented because there are a million proposals in the infofield on how to reach that goal, a bunch of trends, offers, promises - conflicting, incorrect, accurate, absurd... And so we find ourselves in a situation where we spend endlessly and thoughtlessly to achieve that goal. So, the basic capitalist principle that never leaves you satisfied, applied in the domain of health. On the other hand, system support is often lacking. Health is a universal topic and I think it is the place and reason for wide recognition. In Europe, of course, they focused on Meghan Markle first, but it seems to me that we managed to push through that audience and get them to continue reading the text.

Now, TRIPTYCH why it was conceived in that form?

01-07

Because those three songs were created around the same time, they have a musical link in that reduced expression, as well as the same approach to developing the theme of the text - through a series of associations, from my gut.

One verse in the first part Triptych he says"The future is aging aging is the future". Have we become a humanity of old men who yearn to look young, while at the same time receiving the respect accorded to elders in ancient Greece?

We nailed it ourselves. By discriminating against age, we put ourselves in a position to fear it and make extraordinary efforts to avoid the inevitable.

What do the Genexa building and the Church mentioned in the verses have to do with the fear of death?

I can actually see those two objects from my apartment. And I perceive that as the sum of some society to which I belonged and still belong. And a reminder of transience.

What is the significance of eating meat at the beginning of each section Triptych? If you didn't have that EKV song in mind As if it was once upon a time, where it is said"We had meat for lunch, we gnawed the bones of good animals"?

I didn't. But thanks for reminding me of that. It's hard to think on a full stomach, it's hard to move on a full stomach. Today, we are mostly full, fed on sugar and potatoes. Also, I am fascinated by the phenomenon of second-degree consumption or whatever I want to call it - when you watch someone who consumes something, when someone does something on your behalf. It is the basis of today's entertainment, and even action. And thirdly, ASMR (Autonomous sensory meridian response).

Are we really weak today?, sad, desperate and scared in a healthy body? What specifically scares you and makes you weak and sad today?

Perhaps some lack of meaningful togetherness. Lack of solidarity and goodwill. Lack of direct communication.

Does money really make sense??

I don't know. I only know that sometimes I barely earn 200 euros doing something meaningful, and sometimes I am offered big money for advertising. It bothers me, it's not right.