The Neighbours: Forms of Trauma (1945-1989)
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Description
Supported by Soulpepper Theatre and the Jackman Humanities Institute, this multimedia installation, The Neighbours: Forms of Trauma (1945-1989), by Lilia Topouzova, Julian Chehirian, and Krasimira Butseva constitutes the public-facing art component of the international academic workshop Authoritarianism: Lives, Legacies, Trauma, led by Professors Joshua Arthurs and Lilia Topouzova.
The installation is built upon 40 interviews conducted by Topouzova with survivors from the Bulgarian gulag (1945-1962). The project is the outcome of 20 years of scholarly research and 9 years of artistic collaboration.
Through object, video and sound interventions, the artists recreate the survivors’ homes and evoke the material and psychological space where the interviews unfolded. Staged within them are fragments from oral histories, field recordings and video from former camp sites. The media conflux evokes the unstable boundaries between spaces of home and the psychologically proximate sites of violence.
The public are welcome to view the installation between 1:00 pm and 4:00 pm each day between September 25 and September 29.
Note: Event details can change. Please visit the unit’s website for the latest information about this event.