The repetitive children’s song that was being diligently taught in kindergartens and primary schools, around the time when the idea of liberalism was being born in the collapsing Yugoslavia. I still remember how I tried to “shout my hurray” and create a feeling of that happiness, one of the first indoctrinations of the new, post-socialist ideology.

The performance If You’re Happy is a cultural and artistic anti-celebration. If celebration seeks to celebrate the illusion of a country, worth of dignity, anti-celebration examines what this dignity represents and what are its foundations. If the celebrations in our country are censored, it is precisely the opposite with anti-celebrations: they speak about the issues that the censors are trying to remove from celebrations. If celebration consists of a well-defined protocol, anti-celebration is charged with the experimental and ritual character.

I am glad that I had the honour to be directing this year’s anti-celebration. The political leaders, who will carry out social improvements based on its constructive criticism, will be grateful, and so will be the people who may recognize themselves in the mirror of their own miseries and the miseries of the others.
If you’re happy, shout hurray!
Andrej Jus, director

Nursery rhyme “If You’re Hungry”
If you are hungry, you go eat. If you eat, you are full. If you are full, you are tired. If you are tired, you go to sleep. If you go to sleep, you sleep. If you sleep, you rest. If you are rested, you become hungry. If you are hungry, you want to eat. If you want to eat and have nothing to eat, you are sad. If you are sad, you cry. If you cry, you get on people’s nerves. If you get on people’s nerves, they frown on you. If they frown on you, they are afraid. If they are afraid, they are avoiding you. If they are avoiding you, you are invisible. If you are invisible, you are completely alone in the world. If you are alone in the world, there is no you. If there is no you, you do not exist. If you do not exist, you are dead. If you are dead, you are not hungry. If you are not hungry, you are happy. If you are happy, slap your knees!