SCREENING & CONVERSATION
DAMIR AVDAGIĆ

Time: Tuesday 19 March, 6–8pm
Venue: Kunstnernes Hus Kino, Wergelandsveien 17, Oslo
Info: The event is free and open to all (no booking required)

 

Please join us on Tuesday 19 March at 6pm for a special screening of two previous films by Oslo-based visual artist Damir Avdagić at Kunstnernes Hus Kino: Repriza/Uzvracanje (Reprise/Response) from 2018 and Prolazi izmedju 1980-2021 (Passasjer mellom 1980-2021, Passages between 1980-2021) from 2021. This will be the first time the two films are presented together.

After the screening, Avdagić will be in conversation with Live Drønen, Interim Artistic Director at UKS, about the films and how they relate to his current UKS exhibition Prijenos (Overføring). The event is presented by UKS at and in collaboration with Kunstnernes Hus Kino, and is free and open to all (no booking required).

 

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PROGRAMME

6pm

Repriza/Uzvrcanje (Reprise/Response)
2018 | 23:54 min | English / Norwegian / BCS (Bosnian-Serbian-Croatian) with English subtitles

In Repriza/Uzvrcanje (Reprise/Response), four people in their mid-60s (originally from the former Yugoslavia) perform a transcribed conversation in which four people in their mid-20s discuss the inter-generational frictions relating to the conflict in the former Yugoslavia that they experience in their relationships with their parents. The participants in Repriza/Uzvrcanje perform this transcript together and react to the content by engaging in conversations about responsibility, shame, guilt and the legacy of communist Yugoslavia.

 

6.30pm

Prolazi izmedju 1980-2021 (Passasjer mellom 1980-2021, Passages between 1980-2021)
2021 | 32:41 min | English / Norwegian / BCS (Bosnian-Serbian-Croatian) with English subtitles

In Prolazi izmedju 1980-2021, Avdagić works with five people who came to Norway as child refugees in the 1990s. They perform testimonies from the period 1980–95 that chronologically trace the development of the conflict in the former Yugoslavia and which stem from members of their parents’ and grandparents’ generations. During the presentation, the participants look at the history they have in common and share their experiences regarding national, political and social affiliation.

 

7pm

Conversation: Damir Avdagić og Live Drønen.

 

 

*Image: Damir Avdagić, Prolazi izmedju 1980-2021 (Passasjer mellom 1980-2021, Passages between 1980-2021) (2021)