Damir Arsenijevic Livres

Two Words / Deux Mots est un livre de Sejla Kameric structuré autour d'oeuvres d'art qu'elle a créées entre 1999 et 2009. Ce livre opère comme un collage d'oeuvres d'art qui s'entrecroisent avec une série de réflexions, de poèmes et d'interventions d'auteurs divers sur l'oeuvre de Kameric, organisés autour des questionnements majeurs que soulève l'artiste. L'art, la politique, la société, la moralité, l'identité, la possession, la violence, la mémoire, la courbure spatiotemporelle, la divination, les droits de l'homme et nos modes de vie, pour ne citer que ceux-là. L'intention est ici de transformer la perception du lecteur/ spectateur en un engagement actif dans chacun de ces thèmes, en lui proposant de prendre une part active à ce jeu : celui d'une présentation artistique "à vif", sur un support imprimé.

This volume affirms the transformative impulse of the February protests and plenums that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2014. It brings together a range of interventions that materialize a common emancipatory frame in which politics is recuperated against the dominant bureaucratic management of the status quo. The fight for the commons upholds life that refuses to be bribed into accepting the dominant oppression and corruption as the only possibility of social existence in Bosnia and Herzegovina today. Local and international challenges will entail building and proving in everyday life solidarity that targets practices of exclusion, inequality, and injustice. The protests and plenums in Bosnia and Herzegovina mark a new and hopeful moment in asserting a more equitable and just sociality - a fight that is local in its early achievements but global and universal in its implications.Damir Arsenijeviæ is a Leverhulme Trust Fellow at De Montfort University, Leicester, leading a project 'Love after Genocide'.

The book documents and critically evaluates contemporary poetry within the dynamic field of cultural production in Bosnia and Herzegovina since the late 1980s. Its context spans three historico-political phases: firstly, the cusp on which socialism was already losing its primacy and ethno-nationalism was gaining dominance; secondly, the subsequent collapse of Yugoslavia and the ensuing war led by ethno-nationalist elites; and thirdly, the period of the aftermath of war — the so-called “post-war transition”. This new approach to thinking about poetry in Bosnia and Herzegovina focuses on alternative cultural practices, which have articulated a more equitable organisation of Bosnian society. Such practices have the capacity not only to tell us how unfree we are, but also to shift the criteria of possibility of our freedom towards a more hopeful politics. Dr. Arsenijeviæ’s knowledge of and passion for his research in cultural and literary studies and his art-theory political interventions shed scholarly light on the terror of inequality, the solidarity of unbribable life, relevant knowledge production, and material memories of war and genocide. He works throughout former Yugoslavia.