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TO UN-BECOME, 2017, is a multimedia art project exploring the concept of "un-becoming" by revisiting the war in Yugoslavia and its consequences two decades later. In April 2017, Saša Rajšić retraced the journey of over 400km from his family's first refugee shelter in Serbia to their former home in Croatia. For over two weeks, he walked following in reverse the same route that had been taken by other refugees two decades earlier. Homes in ruins surrounded by collapsing walls could still be found along the way. These images evoked suppressed memories and emotions and inspired elaborate visions. This journey merged the evidence of war with Rajšić's actual and constructed memories; it created a 'visual noise' that became his truth during the walk. In 2017, the border between Serbia and Croatia was once again where humanity was at its darkest. Thousands of refugees were denied entry to the European Union, finding themselves in temporary refugee camps in Serbia, sometimes alongside long-uprooted Serbian refugees facing over twenty years in exile.
TO UN-BECOME, 2018
Publication
Saša Rajšić and Vitalis Neufeld
Softcover
8 x 10" (203,2 x 254 mm)
108 pp
42 b&w photos
Self-published
Printed in Canada
ISBN: 978-1-7752673-0-0
Edition of 100
Cambridge ON, Spring 2018
TO UN-BECOME, 2017
HD video
Duration: 15 min 20 sec
Vitalis Neufeld
video, editing, and post-production
Bojan Stanković
sound and original music
Full video available upon request
EXHIBITIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
JULY 18-AUGUST 29, 2020, A+ Online Festival of Video Art: Mobility÷Death÷Mobility
A+ Works of Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, MY
MARCH 16, 2019, Serbian Book Fair Toronto, Hivers, Toronto ON
FEBRUARY 25, 2019, Oxford Transitional Justice Research, Centre for Criminology, Faculty of Law
Oxford University, Oxford UK
OCTBER 19-NOVEMBER 16, 2018, 17th Annual Juried Art Exhibition,
Cambridge Centre for the Arts, Cambridge ON
OCTOBER 17-DECEMBER 9, 2018, Scan Photobooks 2018, Al Tingaldo 2, Port of Tarragona
SCAN, Tarragona ES
JULY 24-27, 2018, IASFM17: 17th Conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration, Department of Balkan, Slavic, and Oriental Studies, Laboratory for Study of Culture, Gender, and Borders, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki GR
JUNE 22-JULY 31, 2018, Reality Exchange Group Exhibition, Fifty Dots Gallery, Barcelona ES
JUNE 7-10, 2018, Law at the Crossroads: Annual Meeting on Law and Society
Sheraton Centre, Toronto ON
MAY 8-12, 2018, Recall, Reflect, Return: International Performance Symposium
Khalil Skakini Cultural Centre, Ramallah PL
APRIL 10-MAY 4, 2018, Ontario Society of Artists 145th Annual Juried Exhibition
John B, Aird Gallery, Toronto ON
MARCH 25, 2018, You Are Here: Interdisciplinary Conference on Place, Space, and Embodiment
Creighton University, Omaha NE
JANUARY 11-FEBRUARY 10, 2018, VAM40: Visual Arts Mississauga Fine Arts Juried Show
Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga ON
OCTOBER 10, 2017, Raw and Regional: Artists Speakers Series
Cambridge Art Galleries, Idea Exchange, Cambridge ON
MAY 4-5, 2017, To Un-Become: Multimedia Installation, Auditorium 1, Theatre Academy
University of the Arts Helsinki, Helsinki FI
COLLABORATORS
Vitalis Neufeld - photography, video, editing, post-production
Bojan Stanković - sound, original music
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BIO
Saša Rajšić is an artist and educator from Karlovac, Croatia. He and his family fled their home during the war in Yugoslavia and lived as refugees in Serbia until immigrating to Canada in 2005. Rajšić studied at OCAD University, Uniarts Helsinki, and the University of Toronto. Rajšić’s work has been presented in Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Malesia, Palestine, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, and Canada, where he currently lives and works.
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