To commemorate the former Yugoslav
Internet domain, .yu, which was set to
expire last September but has since been extended
until March 2010, I made a sculpture
using an inkjet printer and 10,000
sheets of paper. The sculpture, resembling
the one printed here, featured colored
plumes of smoke fuming from the flares of
football fans and hooligans.

Judging from the spate of violence that
shortly followed, the choice of imagery
proved sadly prophetic: French fan Brice
Taton was severely beaten by a group of
Grobari (undertakers) on 17 September
2009 and died twelve days later; Vedran
Pulijć, a fan of the football club Sarajevo,
was shot dead in hooligan riots before the
match on 4 October 2009 in Široki Brijeg,
Bosnia and Herzegovina; and another five
Sarajevo fans were injured by gunfire.

In this version of the sculpture—which
is black and white, the colors of Grobari—
the flares used by the extremist football fans
are suggestive of the recent tragic events.
The images, found on the Web and isolated
using Photoshop, were chosen as emblems
of the continuing violence of a former country,
which has lost the last official form of its
identity, the virtual one.
—Aleksandra Domanović
Instructions:
1. Download Grobari [PDF, 180mb],
A4 and US letter versions available
2. Set inkjet printer to borderless setting
3. Print, stack, and send a photograph of
finished work

Private Circulation › Grobari, by Aleksandra Domanovic.