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Adela Jušić in video-conversation with Marina Gržinić

Adela Jušić in video-conversation with curator Marina Gržinić on October 13th, 2020, about the installation “Bedtime Stories”, by Jušić and Lana Čmajčanin (2011, Six-channel sound installation, 3:13 min., 7:34 min., 4:30 min., 5:19 min., 3:24 min., 4:54 min., loop). Lana Čmajčanin and Adela Jušić remember their childhoods in the basement; they were children that grew into puberty in a basement. It was at the time of the Siege of Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), during the Bosnian War (1992–96). On 5 April 1992, the Army of Republika Srpska besieged Sarajevo; the siege lasted for 1,425 days, till 29 February 1996. “This was a highly traumatic period,” says Čmajčanin, who was eight years old at the time, while her sister was ten; it was, however, also a time of power and resistance, of fun shared by the children. Music was important, so the youth would come together in the common basement space, where they played and listened to music whenever possible. Čmajčanin and Jušić decided to approach the trauma and the experience of music in these narratives with a double line of sound. The Bosnian language in the background is not understandable for many people, and so becomes the sound of tangible anxiety. At the same time, the English translation, a soft voice-over narrated by a woman storyteller, recalls a mother’s voice telling us bedtime fairy tales. It is, however, another important political dimension of the sound in this work. In the 1990s, in BiH, during the Siege of Sarajevo, there was the hope that, since BiH was at the centre of Europe, it would be saved by the international community and the United Nations. This did not happen, the war continued. The soft English voice-over is for the West, which preferred not to hear and not to see what was going on, close by; until the genocide in Srebrenica, this Western lethargy remained unshaken. The fairy tales are offered both gently and critically to the West. Lana Čmajčanin lives and works between Sarajevo and Vienna. She has exhibited in numerous galleries and museums across the world and has won several awards and scholarships. Her works are part of private and public collections. Adela Jušić is a Bosnian contemporary visual artist. Jušić has exhibited in more than a hundred international exhibitions and has participated in many artist-in-residence programmes, in numerous panels, workshops, and conferences and has won several awards. Her works are part of private and public collections. More information about the artists: lanacmajcanin.com adelajusic.wordpress.com More information about the exhibition at Weltmuseum Wien: https://www.weltmuseumwien.at/ausstel... The catalogue for the exhibiton: https://shop.khm.at/shop/detail/?shop... More information on the FWF-PEEK partner project (Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien): https://archiveofamnesia.akbild.ac.at/