User:Senka/special issue 1/Work Outside XPUB and Correlations
Momentary Lapse in Memory
Momentary Lapse in Memory is an interactive digital environment concerning the memory landscape of the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. It investigates the impact of ephemeral factors on the archival practice. By doing so, it makes space for the unreliable mechanisms of both memory and its transmission, to steer and sway.
- Explanation of the project [1]
- Link to project [2] if it says it took too long to respond just refresh the page. Take note these is sound on the website!
- I wrote a lyric essay for Amsterdam Museum Journal's edition War, Conflict and the City [3] under the title A Momentary Lapse in Memory: An Inquiry into (Re)Memory and Trauma Embodiment [4]
Abstract
This essay investigates the impact of the archival practice on oral histories of conflict. Specifically, it asks to what capacity
can the lived experience be devoured by the grinding machine of forced institutional remembrance, and how can it defy such a
predicament? The inquiry to this question was studied through the oral history of the author’s friends, family and neighbors
concerning the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. This military intervention was done in response to the oppressive regime of
Slobodan Milošević and remains fresh in the Serbian collective memory. Utilizing qualitative generative interviews, a case study
of the author’s parents’ approaches to archiving, and personal footage recorded by the Radio-Television of Serbia, the paper
examines differences between institutional and personal archival practices. The analysis displays that institutional remembrance
can claim the lived experience through collective memory, which is reinstated by commemorative practices and archiving.
In contrast, oral histories of conflict result in a different type of narrative-building and remembering. They are characterized by mechanisms such as collective editing, transmission, and nonlinearity, which resist standardization and instrumentalization.
This paper advocates for reconsidering static preservation-oriented modes of institutional archiving, proposing instead, to
embrace non-reproductible aspects or the unreliable of oral history.
- Related to: the Archive, Oral History
Nightly Manifesto
- Glitch Feminism Manifesto
- Questions of existing and expressing oneself online
- Rewor(l)ding: an episode of improvised storytelling. Parameters for this improvisation were: drawing 2 genres which the story will be told + drawing a person, object or phenomena that will interject into the storyline of the object
Reading Rhythms Club
- Zine on reading methods Julia Wilhelm and I have created 2022 can be found here> [5]
Research Fellowship with NFF (Nederlands Film Festival)
With studio ARK (Atelier Roosje Klap) I have been granted a research fellowship to investigate the research question of: Exploring Collaborative Boundaries in Hybrid Knowledge Creation
- Related to: the Archive, collaborative practices and working with technology