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Call the Witness

Call the Witness
Library Shelf Location 17.CALL
Publication Date 2011
Description The exhibition Call the Witness includes works by seven extraordinary artists who actively work from within and beyond their Roma identities. The works take up the role of “testimonies”, which in their own languages bear witness to past sufferings (such as the Holocaust) and of present and future anxieties, which seem to so intimately relate to the very existence of the Roma in our world. Each of these artists actively speculates about another possibility, and from within the Roma subjectivity proposes that we imagine how things could be otherwise. This exhibition is part of a research trajectory leading to the realization of the Roma Pavilion in the context of the Collateral Events at the 54th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, 2011, organized by BAK. Commissioned by the Open Society Foundations and hosted by the UNESCO Venice Office located in the Palazzo Zorzi, the Roma Pavilion will emerge into a makeshift exhibition over time through the flux of additional testimonies—works of art, performances, talks, and conversations by and with artists, philosophers, and politicians, in which the situation of the Roma and Roma art are considered as emblematic for the world today, in order to speculate, in soldarity, about more hopeful futures. http://www.callthewitness.net
Quantity 1
Pages 56
Author Suzana Milevska
Format Paperback
Publisher BAK
Related Artists Suzana Milevska, Lynn Hutchinson Lee, Milutin Jovanovic, Hedina Tahirovic Sijercic, Kiba Lumberg, Nihad Nino Pušija, Marika Schmiedt, Alfred Ullrich
Category Group Exhibition/Multiple Artists
Languages English, Dutch

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