THROW LIKE A GIRL

Currently, TENT offers a setting and stage for a new project in which Maja Bekan and a group of collaborators delve into the relationship between art, feminism, and conflict. Their starting point is the life story of Jeanne Merkus, a Dutch philanthropist and activist who decided to take up arms and join the Herzegovina uprising against the Ottoman occupation in 1875, leading soldiers in battle. Over the years, the perception of this historical figure has shifted from heroin to outcast in Balkan public memory and from guerrilla soldier to a housewife in popular culture. More info