Mykola Ridnyi, Blindspot, 2014
The 6-part discursive and public series On(going) Trauma - Artistic narratives on collective and individual wounds provides a forum to talk about and learn from artistic and curatorial research practices in dealing with trauma. Various practices are presented, in which situated knowledges and backgrounds of systematic power and violence structures are discussed, as well as activist and marginalized perspectives are illuminated. In six rounds of participatory encounters, discourses will be addressed that deal with the following issues: media representations and image politics of violence; the growth of right-wing everyday presence; trauma embedded in and seen through bodily perspectives; traumatic witnessing and fictional (counter-)narratives; private conflicts and public discourses; as well as aspects of the fragmentary and transgenerational temporality of trauma. On(going) Trauma is initiated by Institut für Widerstand im Postfordismus / Elisa Müller and Anna-Lena Werner in cooperation with Vierte Welt Berlin. The discursive series is funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds. With Anna Stiede, Anujah Fernando, Alper Turan, Dominique Haensell, Gesa Geue, Ghayath Almadhoun, Hai Anh Trieu, Jenny Mahla, Jonas Leifert, Isaac Chong Wai, İz Öztat, Kathrin Ebmeier, Katharina Ludwig, Katrin Hylla, Lada Nakonechna, Lene Albrecht, Lela Ahmadzai, Luce deLire, Mine Pleasure Bouvar, Minh Duc Pham, Mykola Ridnyi, Natis, Olexii Kuchanskyi, Omer Fast, Shira Wachsmann and Tanja Krone.
