Just another day in a besieged city
The Sarajevo punk scene kept rocking through the war.
So many people were ready to risk their lives for two hours of any music whatsoever.
A few more shells fell while we were lying on the garage floor and feeling ourselves to check if we were wounded.
For a moment, I imagine myself back on that stage, in the smoke, fog and haze of rock and roll.
Nebojša Šerić Šoba
Nebojša Šerić Šoba, a sculptor and musician, was born in Sarajevo, where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts between 1989 and 1992. From mid-1992 until the end of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (December 1995), Šoba fought as a soldier in besieged Sarajevo. The journalist and comic book author Joe Sacco wrote a book on Šoba’s wartime experiences. In 1999, Šoba moved to Amsterdam, where he studied at the Rijksakademie, before he moved to New York, where he is based to this day.