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Victims' Symptom

Ana Peraica, Croatia

This blog will follow the project "Victims' Symptom (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Culture)", curated by Ana Peraica and commissioned by LabforCulture.org as a special initiative to mark LabforCulture's one-year anniversary. The full project will go live on LabforCulture.org in early 2008.

Before the official start of the Victims' symptom, planned for early 2008, a serial of interviews will be published on this blog. Besides commenting, you can send your proposals with questions or full interviews that would shape the upcoming discussion.

About the author ...

NEITHER VICTIMS NOR HEROES, BUT SURVIVORS: Interview with Jonas Staal

- Jonas, you are most known for your series ‘The Geert Wilders works 2005-2007’ (2005-2007). This started with a series of public ‘memorial works’ of …

THE UNDESIRABLES: Soft Genocides, Administrative Ethnic Cleansing, and Civil Death in Post-socialist Europe, Interview with Tomas Tomilinas

- A seminar TRANSLOCAL EXPRESS. JUBILEE EDITION that was held this February at the Museum of Occupation in Tallinn (Estonia), addressed the growing …

DISPLACEMENT IS NOT A JOY RIDE (or: don't use the "G" word) Interview with Neery Melkonian

- I am aware of the fact that you are neither a genocide scholar nor a trauma specialist. But your curatorial projects and art-writing have shown a …

COMMEMORATING VICTIMS Interview with Agricola de Cologne

- Most of your projects are having a commemorative character. What is the difference of your project and other projects of the kind, like …

We leave no one behind! - De-victimization and stereotypes... interview with Peter Fuchs

We leave no one behind! - De-victimization and stereotypesof heroes and villains in contemporary action/war movies - So why does the mass media …

Victims' dignity - interview with Carlos Motta

- Could you please describe the video that was released by the end of 2007 and distributed over media all over the world, which is the main reason …

IRAQI MEMORIAL ONLINE - interview with Joseph DeLappe

- What is the difference of your project and other projects of the kind, like governmental memorials? And the other Iraqi Memorial? I realize this is …

WORTHY AND UNWORTHY VICTIMS questions to Noam Chomsky

- Do you think victims of the past have more special status in media society than those happening today? Economist and media analyst Edward Herman …

DEATH AND ADVERTISING – An interview with Anur Hadziomerspahic

- Its about the project with the exhumation… I got to confess I couldn’t look at these posters, somehow I know the world would not stay the same. A …

SNUFF AND ART: an interview with Enrique Arroyo

- What do you think a production of snuff movies in contemporary culture indicates about it? Namely, this type of movie has started to appear widely …

blog CORRESPONDENCIES Victims' symptom review (by Lala Rascic)

Croatian / Bosnian artist Lala Rascic compares a Connecting Cultures project Art & Survival aimed at researching human rights, mental health and …

ON SAINTS AND SNUFF: An interview with Johnny de Philo

- What do you think of the concept of institutional "role of victims" suggested already in writings of Beauvoir's on saints? The role of …

workshop "LEARNING FROM..." (Moderna Museet, Stockholm)

The discussion on the Leonardo mailing list Artists and Scientists in Times of War was focusing on the problem of the action (what to do) for the …

40 years of LEONARDO MAGAZINE - non-alliance and survival

On Leonardo Day, held on Sunday 11th Nov, some of burning issues for the future have been pointed out. I have chosen to refer to a lecture by Herbert …

Extreme paradox of displacement of "radicality" - Chrystal Night and Mutamorphosis conference

The last day of the Mutamorphosis conference was held in a completely paradoxical situation. Police cars and vans driving around the Municipal …

Debate Victims' symptom - MUTAMORPHOSIS CONFERENCE, Prague

The round table on Victims' symptom, held after Marko Peljhan's debate on Antartic project, was quite intense, still not crowded. Opposite to other …

Introduction to the Victims' symptom blog

This blog will follow the development of the project Victims' Symptom (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Culture), commissioned by LabforCulture.org …