OTHER (book)

I always wondered who “they” were when we talked about social issues or politics, about “the system”. We still talk like this, all of us. “They”- the people in power? Or “they” - the people who are spatially distant? Or, “they” - the people who we don’t understand? Or, “they” - the people of another time? They - the others. In all cases they don’t know something we know, we have something revealing to say about them. I can't stop wondering - how far in any terms (spatial, temporal, material status) we must be to consider us here distant enough to say they are somewhere there, out of reach. We don't know each other. Or, we draw a line between each other. We close our circle and everyone left out is the other one.

As I watch them unfold, I admit, I don't know them. Are they we? It all depends on how I identify myself - as a nation, as all of people, as the people who live now - where is(n’t) my border?

»Other« is a conceptual publication made up of fragments of random trivial conversations in public spaces of former Yugoslavia, an extension of Maja Milić’s research in experimental autoethnography (and its intersection with found footage).


Recording, Transcription & Editing: Maja Milić
Book concept & Graphics: Maja Milić & Moritz Grünke
Published by Atlas Projectos & we make it
@atlasaltatlas @wemakeitberlin

Publication: 13×26cm with 98 pages
in Croatian & English
5-color Risography on 100 g/m² Werkdruck
Green open spine glue binding with reverse cover
First Edition of 150 copies
2023

Buy here: https://we-make.it/other/

Or contact personally @majamilich