SouthSouth

"Someone wrote about Doimai and Vamă that it's a false myth, because only marginalized people came there. Yes, of course, most young people at that time were outcasts, thank God. We were young people who hadn't found our place in society, and maybe that's why we were more pure in spirit, more free. The established artists of the time went to Neptun, to the House of Writers or to the hotels of the creative unions, or hunting with the baștan. Neither Adrian Păunescu nor Vadim Tudor came to Doimai and Vamă... And what about the "important people", the people who ruled us, the privileged, the socially integrated? They didn't belong in the wilderness."

Cristian Pepino, e-mail, 03-03-2024

I had my real encounter with the SouthSouth in 2000, "when we were no longer children", although I had been there a few times, accidentally, taken aback by a crush or some summer boredom. I, too, was finding the customs more and more dilapidated, myself more and mor