Other to Your Self: Connect the Dots!
Location
Beaman A&B
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
27-9-2013 11:00 AM
Description
How can an artist communicate in language and images the painful twists and turns to a sense of Self affected by histories of displacements in labor migration, system change, war or cultural re-invention in a new language? Marica Bodrožić offers intriguing points of access in her documentary film, her poetry and prose, that foreground connectedness and similarity to the Other rather than difference and separation. Bodrožić’s work offers Herzgemälde, images painted from the heart, that promote a new understanding of ourselves in relationship to concepts of “home” – as Self with environmental identity and environmental heritage. Those images invite immersion into a flow where “home” as a felt attachment to places and people is found in the midst of both slow and explosive violations in the wake of economic and political power shifts, and where identity is a constant process of becoming. Images and art installations from Bodrožić’s documentary illustrate eloquently the imaginative labor of envisioning connections of Self and Other over time and place.
Recommended Citation
Berroth, Erika, "Other to Your Self: Connect the Dots!" (2013). Humanities Symposium. 8.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2013/2013/8
Other to Your Self: Connect the Dots!
Beaman A&B
How can an artist communicate in language and images the painful twists and turns to a sense of Self affected by histories of displacements in labor migration, system change, war or cultural re-invention in a new language? Marica Bodrožić offers intriguing points of access in her documentary film, her poetry and prose, that foreground connectedness and similarity to the Other rather than difference and separation. Bodrožić’s work offers Herzgemälde, images painted from the heart, that promote a new understanding of ourselves in relationship to concepts of “home” – as Self with environmental identity and environmental heritage. Those images invite immersion into a flow where “home” as a felt attachment to places and people is found in the midst of both slow and explosive violations in the wake of economic and political power shifts, and where identity is a constant process of becoming. Images and art installations from Bodrožić’s documentary illustrate eloquently the imaginative labor of envisioning connections of Self and Other over time and place.
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