Victims’ Symptom (PTSD and Culture) http://victims.labforculture.org - curated by Ana Peraica - attempts to move forward the notion of PTSD from psycho-traumatic diagnosis to a symptomatic term in media studies.
The project will analyse the meaning of a victim who has survived a traumatic event, becoming both a witness and a suffering subject. PTSD is institutionalised at an economic, social and political level, contrary to the merely enumerated victims who have only a legal nd a cultural role. PTSD is usually diagnosed in individuals (rather than groups) surviving an event that ranges outside our normal experience. We will explore whether mediated culture can traumatise. If not - has the world become immune to trauma…?
These questions will be analysed in an online collaborative project on LabforCulture.org, produced in several phases/layers; including research, documentation, an online debate featuring theoretical texts (using the curatorial statement below as a starting point), and also ...
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Victims’ Symptom (PTSD and Culture) http://victims.labforculture.org - curated by Ana Peraica - attempts to move forward the notion of PTSD from psycho-traumatic diagnosis to a symptomatic term in media studies.
The project will analyse the meaning of a victim who has survived a traumatic event, becoming both a witness and a suffering subject. PTSD is institutionalised at an economic, social and political level, contrary to the merely enumerated victims who have only a legal nd a cultural role. PTSD is usually diagnosed in individuals (rather than groups) surviving an event that ranges outside our normal experience. We will explore whether mediated culture can traumatise. If not - has the world become immune to trauma…?
These questions will be analysed in an online collaborative project on LabforCulture.org, produced in several phases/layers; including research, documentation, an online debate featuring theoretical texts (using the curatorial statement below as a starting point), and also a series of commissioned artworks.
Commissioned as a special initiative to mark LabforCulture’s one-year anniversary, the project, accompanied by critical texts, documentation and reflections by the curator and a number of other participants throughout the project, will go live on the site in early 2008.
LabforCulture http://www.labforculture.org is a partnership initiative of the European Cultural Foundation and would like to thank its funders for their support.
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- Year Created: 2008
- Submitted to ArtBase: Saturday Mar 8th, 2008
- Original Url: http://victims.labforculture.org
- Permalink: http://victims.labforculture.org
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Work Credits:
- Ana Peraica, creator
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