Through [personal]—geographies we propose to rethink territories as simultaneously geographic and affective, as sceneries for embodied processes of transmission of memory. Dealing with the ancestry-related issues of memory and forgetting, with the topics of violence and migrations that took place in and between these areas, visual essays and installations  introduce anachronisms, different temporalities and gaps rather than working with comprehensive and closed accounts. The main media used by the artists to counteract dominant historical and political narratives is the moving image. The exhibition thus includes video and film essays (Angela Melitopoulos, Angelika Levi, Yara Haskiel), video-installations (Ana Hoffner, Lana Čmajčanin), documentary video interview (Virginia Villaplana) and video document within a broader multidisciplinary project (Teresa Mulet).  Of crucial importance is a relation between visual, written, oral and performative models of testimony in the form of monologues, dialogues, gestures, poetry or melodies. The underlying idea of Personal Geographies is to look for another ways of telling history beyond categories of identity and territory. The focus is upon the strategies of survival and the places of pain that are at the same time places of resistance, hope, empathy, solidarity and utopian imagination.

artists: ANA HOFFNER – ANGELA MELITOPOULOS — ANGELIKA LEVI – LANA ČMAJČANIN – TERESA MULET – VIRGINIA VILLAPLANA – YARA HASKIEL

concept: BRANKA VUJANOVIĆ – YARA HASKIEL

–thursday, 2 AUGUST, 18.30h –

prezentacija knjige/book presentation: ANA HOFFNER. THE QUEERNESS OF MEMORY

–friday, 3 AUGUST, 18.30h –

prezentacija knjige/book presentation: TERESA MULET: INFORME 1999-2016

–friday, 3 AUGUST, 19.00h –

conversation with artists:

 ANGELIKA LEVI, LANA ČMAJČANIN, YARA HASKIEL

moderators: BRANKA VUJANOVIĆ, BORJANA GAKOVIĆ