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Here and Elsewhere: Nothing to be Done

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Here and Elsewhere: Nothing to be Done, is a performative video project (2017/2018) that approaches the complexities and social surfaces of the city of Sarajevo. It refers to Susan Sontag ́s engagement in Sarajevo in 1993 when the city was under siege, and is a collaborative project with curators Anja Bogojević from Sarajevo and Amila Puzić from Mostar.

Images of contemporary Sarajevo, joined with archival material from the period of the siege and the city’s socialist past, are recirculated in the public space and accompanied by readings of fragments from Samuel Beckett ́s play Waiting for Godot (which Sontag controversially staged).