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Introduction to the Victims' symptom blog

Victims' Symptom , Ana Peraica , 08 nov 2007

Tagged als: culture, ptsd, victims

Mutamorphosis conference (R1, Municipal Library, Prague), coffee break

This blog will follow the development of the project Victims' Symptom (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Culture), commissioned by LabforCulture.org as a special initiative to mark LabforCulture's one-year anniversary.

The full project, accompanied by critical texts, documentation, commissioned artworks and reflections by the curator and a number of other theorists and artists throughout the project, will go live on LabforCulture.org in early 2008.

The project is launched in November 2007 on LabforCulture.org with an innovative visual interface, this blog and in-depth curatorial statement in parallel to the Victims' Symptom debate held at the MutaMorphosis conference (celebrating 40 years of Leonardo) in Prague from November 8-10, 2007.

The debate would gather sound artist Peter Cusack, Professor Susan Elisabeth Ryan from Louisiana State University and Professor Murat Germen from the Sabanci University in Istanbul, all discussing and/or implementing the notion of "extreme" in their works.

Discussions on Peter Cusack's Sounds from dangerous places , Susan Elisabeth Ryan's http://www.mutamorphosis.org/index.php?lang=en&node=120&catid=108&id=49
and finally Murat Germen and Elyf Ayiter Looking aside all in different ways referring to the topic of extreme.... would be discussed furthermore, attempting to clarify and define the concept itself.

Starting point of the debate would be a scientific research on transfer of PTSD from mother to a child during the pregnancy period. The question arising would be; which kind of environment is defined when a baby is receiving a large amount of cortisol hormone, still psychologically, but also culturally, recognizing the paradigm of the "original safety" precisely at the same place.

Along with authors mentioned, debate would refer to presentations of other conference speakers, as; as; Roger Malina Synaesthesia, Louis Bec's We are extremophiles and Extreme environments.... (see full program)

A debate will be held on Friday, November 9, 2007 from 17:35 to 18:30 (GMT+1) in the debate room of the Municipal library of Prague.

Everyone is also invited to follow the it and join the discussion on this blog.

weiter: Debate Victims' symptom - MUTAMORPHOSIS CONFERENCE, Prague, 10 nov 2007

Kommentare

Again, lovely artwork, but would it be possible to have different languages appearing at the same time?

I am reading through your writings on the media-bites-war subject, which is something I have felt passionately about, although my perspective has more often been towards the position of the public as receptors of the media - emphasis: catharsis. My issue: what it means to have one's own perspective remotely formed as a part of the constructed awareness of some governing "other." As you say, many people and nations suffer in silence. So baring in mind the evidence of selection, made by the governing, I can not believe that the global awareness brought through the mass media (now to include the Venice Biannual?) is not politically motivated.

Corpses as candy, or as cigarettes for the new-democratic adult? How certain is it that there are no benefits in showing coverage of war and particularly: it's victims? I'm becoming conversational now, forgive me, but I'm reminded of the WW2-time concern in western government that anyone could potentially be a nazi and the consequent efforts to create and impose a democratic normality upon the masses and the coincidental appropriation of the research in lue, as a tool for product marketing to the masses. There's a very good 4 part series of documentaries (the Century of the Self), which may help you find some answers.

I wonder if you have seen this work, developed through discussions in [zhao] over sport and war: <a href="http://zhao-project.blogspot.com/2006/12/artbytes.html">http://zhao-project.blogspot.com/2006/12/artbytes.html</a>

Best wishes.

Benjamin.
CommentAnonymous User - 21 nov 2007
In regard to the text... a friend has told that a Bosniac artist has spit in the face of a photoreporter waiting in the ambush nearby the bridge with a sniperist as he has shown a disappointment when the guy was not shot while running. he was waiting to make a photo of shot. that much on war photography!

CommentAnonymous User - 20 nov 2007

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