“Home Is Where We Feel Good” is created within the scope of Uroš Ranković’s MA studies at the Faculty of Technical Sciences in Novi Sad, Department for Stage Design and Architecture. This immersive theatre event represents research of the phenomenon of space, house, home, trauma, and memory. Theoretical research presents ideas on how we can perceive and analyse a space, how we understand the duality between the notions “house” and “home”, but also how we can perceive the contemporary performing practice - immersion. Based on theory and by the means of art research and the analysis of art references, this study is trying to answer the following questions: How to present abruptly ended childhood on stage? How to infuse a space with atmosphere of the traumatic process caused by bombardment? How does one understand the notion of “house” and how the notion of “home”? The main aim of the research was to formulate specific art poetics which represents the synthesis of philosophical, theoretical, and artistic thought. The outcome of the entire research is this immersive theatre event which will be performed at several venues in Belgrade.
The diagnosis is an erosion of memory, the version of the present moment, marked by the lack of intimacy and emotions among people, who seem to have forgotten the past they are coming from. I did not deal here with the causes of the NATO bombardment of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1999, but with its consequences, and the scars it has left on Belgrade and its citizens.