War
Witness Archive is open for visitors of Venice biennale. From 6 to 11
of May you can look at the photographs from the Archive, talk with a
curators of the pavilion Aleksei Shinkarenko and Olga Rybchiskaya,
add your reaction on the picture to the Archive data base.
War
Witness Archive is an artistic inventory of memory about world wars.
The project has started as the research of photographic archive
related to the World War I history and is now developing in contrast
to the World War II photographic archive.
The
Archive forms its body collecting testimonies about past events
stored in the memory of contemporaries. The exposition at the
Contemporary Arts Museum in 2014 has become the first embodiment of
WWA. The project continues its lifecycle where a traditional
photographic archive gets a new state, a state of metaarchive.
The
Archive nowadays is a flow of history waves which gains new features
echoing all it contacts with. Spreading itself in the contemporary
context and getting new forms, gathering actual reactions on itself.
It is a process where The Archive constantly memorizes new states and
directs the knowledge obtained on the work with its content - the
unconcious nature of world catastrophies.
On
the first stage of its realization the WWA project has absorbed the
local context, surroundings and mentality of Belarusians seeking
answer to the question - what does it mean to be witness of historic
event today? The Archive goes now into global context. And inside the
Archive appears a space for dialogue concerning understanding and the
possibility of witness's voice to be heard.
Aleksei
Shinkarenko
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