Book Launch: Lost and Shared. Rehearsing Collective Mourning in a Struggling City
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We are very happy to invite you to the launch of the book “Lost and Shared. Rehearsing Collective Mourning in a Struggling City”, written by Eliana Otta and published by the Katsarida Press.
Thursday 25/6
7:30 pm
Esto Association: Zaimi 24, Athina 106 83
With the participation of:
Marios Chatziprokopiou, writer, researcher, translator
Cindy Barukh Milstein, author, anarchist, organizer
"Lost and Shared attests to years of work shaped as incitements to rehearse collective mourning. Drawing from her experience working with war survivors in Peru, Eliana Otta linked her interest in human loss to her time in Athens, where in 2017 she encountered the word depression used to describe collective conditions. If depression relates to unprocessed mourning: what losses emerge from economic crisis and political disillusion? How can art help to mourn a political project, a relationship with time or nature?
This book approaches art and research as ways of caring for others’ words, through theory and affective labor. It combines autoethnography, poems made out of conversations with artists and activists, and scores to engage with collective mourning. It connects emotion, critical thinking, body, and space, while tracing how the pandemic and climate change rendered crisis and mourning global concerns. Against planetary processes of loss caused by capitalism, it finishes by proposing “fertilizing mourning” as an invitation to collectively create practices to transform the entanglements of life, death, and regeneration."
Beautifully designed by Sofia Broid, the book is based in Eliana Otta's dissertation written for the PhD in Practice Program at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.
Thursday 25/6
7:30 pm
Esto Association: Zaimi 24, Athina 106 83
With the participation of:
Marios Chatziprokopiou, writer, researcher, translator
Cindy Barukh Milstein, author, anarchist, organizer
"Lost and Shared attests to years of work shaped as incitements to rehearse collective mourning. Drawing from her experience working with war survivors in Peru, Eliana Otta linked her interest in human loss to her time in Athens, where in 2017 she encountered the word depression used to describe collective conditions. If depression relates to unprocessed mourning: what losses emerge from economic crisis and political disillusion? How can art help to mourn a political project, a relationship with time or nature?
This book approaches art and research as ways of caring for others’ words, through theory and affective labor. It combines autoethnography, poems made out of conversations with artists and activists, and scores to engage with collective mourning. It connects emotion, critical thinking, body, and space, while tracing how the pandemic and climate change rendered crisis and mourning global concerns. Against planetary processes of loss caused by capitalism, it finishes by proposing “fertilizing mourning” as an invitation to collectively create practices to transform the entanglements of life, death, and regeneration."
Beautifully designed by Sofia Broid, the book is based in Eliana Otta's dissertation written for the PhD in Practice Program at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.
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Where is it happening?
Esto Association, Ζαΐμη 24, 106 83 Αθήνα, Ελλάδα, Athens, Greece
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Host or PublisherEliana Otta
