Residenz 2017/2018

Das Residenzstipendium des Leuphana Arts Program wurde für 2017 an die Künstlerin Katarina Šević vergeben. Nach einer Vorstellung des Projekts an der Leuphana Universität im Frühjahr 2017, wird die Künstlerin im Laufe des Jahres in unterschiedlichen Formaten in die Universität eingebunden und kann auf Ressourcen der Universität zur Entwicklung ihrer künstlerischen Arbeit zurückgreifen.

VETERANS IN LIFE (about destruction)

März 2017 – Februar 2018

Im Rahmen des Projekts „Naming IT War“ arbeitet Katarina Šević mit einem Archiv aus über 200 Interviews mit Jugoslawischen Kriegsveteranen, Kriegsteilnehmenden und Kriegsgegnern. Das vielseitige Material wird untersucht nach Ausdrücken von Schande, Angst oder Hass und kollektive Listening-Sessions sollen ermöglichen, sich dem Material gemeinsam zu nähern und die Hörerfahrung auf diese Weise zu teilen. Zum Inhalt schreibt Šević im Projektentwurf:

„The archive was made in order to provide testimonies and to increase the production of knowledge capital, disseminating the realities of facts about the wars – their participants, causes and consequences. After listening to a part of this archive, and after meeting some of the veterans in person, I was struck not only by the complexity of the topic, but also by the relevance of these testimonies reaching outside the scope of a single country and a single war, and the urgency to deal with it in an international context.

One of the issues I found most relevant was the difficulty of finding the answer to the excruciating question how do these testimonies in general transform not only our understanding of the recent past, but also of the world we live in today. More importantly, can the knowledge gained in this way help us understand what is happening today, in this period of intense migrations, since most of the people migrating come from the zones of armed con icts, some are veterans, most of them not, but they have all been participants in some kind of warfare. They have all been transformed (often traumatized) by their experiences, and transformed like this, they continue their lives elsewhere. At the same time, some of the veterans stay in their countries of origin and sometimes actively participate in the creation of its future. What impact does it all have on the societies emerging after the war, or on the society in general, since in one way or another, we all live in a post-traumatized society?“