[spectre] ANN: Spring School: Transformation and Transformed (Sarajevo, 6-12 Apr 20)

[Andreas Broeckmann]

From: Claudia Zini
Date: Feb 28, 2020
Subject: ANN: Spring School: Transformation and Transformed (Sarajevo, 
6-12 Apr 20)

Sarajevo, April 6 - 12, 2020
Deadline: Mar 15, 2020

Kuma International Spring School: Transformation and Transformed. A 
Visual Journal Through History, Memory, and Identity

In 2020, on the 25th anniversary since the end of the Bosnian war and 
the Srebrenica genocide in 1995, Kuma will launch a new educational 
program: Kuma International Spring School.

The participants will have the opportunity not only to get acquainted 
with local art history and architecture, and to increase their critical 
awareness and civic responsibility, but they will also immerse 
themselves in the cultural environment as a whole by being situated 
directly in the local places of past events and by meeting the 
protagonists (visual artists, researchers, art historians, architects, 
photographers, historians, etc.) of the local cultural scene.

The theme of the first Kuma International Spring School is 
“transformation and transformed”. Exploring transformations of 
knowledge, territories, spaces, memories, truths, identities, societies 
and ideologies, the program centers around the notion that 
transformation is an integral part of the human condition and 
experience, and that by transforming ourselves we (trans)form our reality.

GENERAL PROGRAM

The first Kuma International Spring School will begin on April 6, 2020, 
in Sarajevo, one of the most significant dates of the history of the 
capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. On April 6, 1945, Sarajevo was the 
scene of one of its greatest victories, the liberation from the Nazi 
occupation. Not even half a century later, on April 6, 1992, the city 
fell under a siege that lasted for endless 1425 nights. The remnants of 
both these historical events can be felt to this day. April 6 is 
simultaneously a day of celebration, a day of glory but it is also a day 
of sorrow, a day of mourning: Sarajevo Day. The first Kuma International 
Spring School will be launched on that day in Sarajevo before traveling 
to other important sites and places in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In seven 
days, the school will take its participants to visit different cities 
and museums, art galleries and monuments which interlink the various 
pasts of Bosnia and Herzegovina: from World War II to socialist 
Yugoslavia, the war of the 1990s and the present path to democracy and 
European integration.  
PLANNED VISITS

April 6/7/8: Sarajevo - Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 
former Museum of the Revolution.
- GSU contemporary art gallery Brodac hosted by the notorious building 
Beledija, a former Nazi prison during World War II. - The Tunnel Museum, 
the hope of the besieged Sarajevo.
- Memory walks around the city.

April 9: Konjic and Jablanica - Tito military Bunker, a unique monument 
built over 23 years from 1953 until 1979, which has been hosting a 
biennial of contemporary art since 2011.
- Museum of the Battle for the Wounded at Neretva.

April 9 - 12: Mostar - Partisan Memorial Cemetery in Mostar, built 
in1965 in honor of the Yugoslav Partisans of Mostar who were killed 
during World War II in Yugoslavia, created by architect Bogdan Bogdanović.
- OKC Cultural Centre Abrašević.
- Memory walks around the city.

April 12: Sutjeska National Park - Sutjeska Memorial, commemorating the 
fallen fighters of the Battle of the Sutjeska, which took place from May 
15th to June 16th, 1943, designed by architect Miodrag Živković. - In 
the evening we will return to Sarajevo traveling through Eastern Bosnia 
and Herzegovina and the city of Foča on the Drina river.   In addition 
to these visits, the program will include lectures, workshops, and 
public debates, as well as relevant cultural and artistic events carried 
out by local artists and architectures, as well as international 
historians and art historians, anthropologists, and cultural workers. 
Please note that the schedule is subjected to change due to the 
availability of our local and international guests.

To apply please send a motivation letter and a CV at 
info at kumainternational.org

Reference / Quellennachweis:
ANN: Spring School: Transformation and Transformed (Sarajevo, 6-12 Apr 
20). In: ArtHist.net, Feb 28, 2020. <https://arthist.net/archive/22725>.

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