Archive 215 : personal heritage co-produced with water

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Delja, Nemanja; Sadowski, Mirosław M. and Bonaviri, Gianluigi Mastandrea and Ceccotti, Filippo, eds. (2025) Archive 215 : personal heritage co-produced with water. In: Heritage in War and Peace IV. University of Strathclyde Publishing, Glasgow. ISBN 9781914241802 (https://doi.org/10.17868/strath.00093380)

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Abstract

This paper presents ongoing practice-based research that questions the creation, recognition, presentation, protection and promotion of personal heritage. It describes parts of this research and their interconnectedness. I started the artistic process intuitively, leaving space for the project's new aspects to appear. This resulted in more natural and free development of every stage and the materialisation of some thought processes in the form of art exhibitions and performances. The paper starts with a detailed description of one durational performance that started in 2023. This performance began from personal curiosity about heritage-related topics at a time when I was asking myself, ‘What will remain of us after we die?’ From this main artistic form, several new projects were developed during a year and a half. In the outcomes section of the paper, several of them are presented through text and images. The exhibition Archive 215 and the performance A 01 explore the institutional role concerning the creation, recognition and preservation of personal heritage. The performance Archiving of Personal Heritage ND/101 explores approaches to staging aspects of durational heritage-related performance, as well as the democratisation of the relationship between the artist, artwork and the audience. Performances Four Sisters and I Still Talk to You bring family history, transgenerational war trauma and memory into focus. Finally, the exhibition The Water Will Help You Forget Me shifts the focus to the passing of time, traces of human existence and the role of water in the ongoing personal heritage project.

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