ARMINA PILAV (BA/UK), ANA DANA BEROŠ (HR), RAFAELA DRAŽIĆ (HR), MIODRAG GLADOVIĆ (HR), MATIJA KRALJ (HR) & MAURO SIROTNJAK (HR

S svojim večletnim raziskovalnim delom z naslovom Un-war Space, o prepletenosti vojnih in ne-vojnih (un-war) prostorov, Armina Pilav ne želi ponuditi enoznačnega prikaza ‘destruktivne metamorfoze’ (Zoran Doršner, 1994) obleganega Sarajeva. Ravno obratno, predstavlja nam performativni arhiv v obliki kompaktne, posebej zasnovane razstavne naprave, s pomočjo katere lahko danes – dvajset let kasneje, v ‘dobi, ki jo definira planetarna državljanska vojna’ (Hito Steyerl, 2017), v času množičnih migracij in naraščajočih neenakosti – gledamo, poslušamo, beremo in, nenazadnje, govorimo o vojni v Sarajevu. Naprava deluje kot aparat za ‘razmišljanje v teku’, ki ponuja pričevanja o tem, kako so prebivalke in prebivalci oporekali vojni v Sarajevu s pomočjo prostorskih (re)akcij in ponovno uporabo dostopnih arhitektonskih in drugih materialov. Arhiv vsebuje številne video in zvočne dokumente, fotografije, arhitektonske risbe in Un-war leksikon, ki je namerno nedokončan, da bo lahko vedno prejemal nova pričevanja in politično pozicioniral neizogibnost kolektivnega (ponovnega) premisleka o vojni v Sarajevu ali o kateremkoli drugem konfliktu na svetu. 

Armina Pilav in her pluriannual research Un-war Space, on the entanglements of war and un-war spaces, refuses to give a single idea on the ‘destructive metamorphosis’ (Zoran Doršner, 1994) of the city of Sarajevo, that was once under siege. She instead gives us a performing archive in a form of compressed, specially designed, exhibition device through which we can now, more than twenty years later, in the ‘age defined by planetary civil war’ (Hito Steyerl, 2017), mass migrations and growing inequalities, see, read or speak about the war in Sarajevo. The device acts as a thinking-in-progress machine, that bears witness how citizens, through spatial (re)actions and (re)usage of available architectural and non-architectural materials, were undoing the war in Sarajevo. The archive contains numerous video and sound documentation, photos, architectural drawings and the Un-war Lexicon, but it is purposely left unfinished, so it can receive ever new testimonies, and politically position the necessity of collective (re)thinking of the war in Sarajevo, or any other violent conflict in the world. 

Un-war Space, 2018 multimedijska instalacija (dva letalska kovčka z arhivom) in publikacija mixed media installation (two flight cases) and a publication