Registration REQUIRED by 4pm on February 19, 2025 in order to attend this event.
Please join the East Central European Center and the Harriman Institute for an artist talk by Jošt Franko. The artist talk will be followed by a conversation with Aleksandar Boškovic and Amir Husak.
The newspaper “A Memory Without Evidence” endeavors to put to the forefront the current social and political reality of displaced and exiled individuals and communities coming to Europe, and strives to find a way for active refugee routes, community centers or forests sheltering people on the move, to become spaces of collaboration and communal deliberations. While utilizing existing situated knowledge and counter-narratives of displaced people, the project strives to act as a podium for the often-complex refugee histories, whose lives illuminate the interconnections of colonization, war, and global social change.
Jošt Franko (b. 1993, Ljubljana) is a visual artist and photographer researching migrations, forced displacement, worker’s rights, counter-narratives, and communal deliberations of precarious lives. Using photography, text, fieldwork, elements of social practice, and collaborations as a form of engagement with social issues, his artistic practice focuses on the many lost, unspoken, or unheard narratives of displaced communities in the Balkan Peninsula. Franko is a recipient of The Aftermath Project Prize, TED Fellowship, multiple Pulitzer Center grants, and recognitions by the Duke University’s Lange-Taylor Prize and Documentary Essay Prize. He holds a Master’s degree from Goldsmiths and is a PhD candidate at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Amir Husak is a documentary media maker and Assistant Professor of Media Studies at The New School. Husak’s work explores the documentary as social practice and investigates digital media representations of history, migration and memory. He has shown his work at Cinemateca Distrital (Bogota, Colombia), Sarajevo Film Festival (Bosnia & Herzegovina), Stadtmuseum Graz (Austria), South by Southwest (US), and Sundance Film Festival (US). Husak currently serves as Artistic Director of BHFF NYC Film Festival, a showcase of cinema from Southeast Europe and its diasporas.
