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title: "Lost & Shared: Approaches to Collective Mourning, Towards Affective and Transformative Politics"

candidate: "Eliana Lucia Otta Vildoso"

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study_program: "Doctor of Philosophy in Practice; Kunst u. kulturwiss. Studien (Stzw)"

abstract: "Taking as a departure point my experience working with war survivors in Peru, this projectinvestigates how art can enable the collectivization of mourning. I connected my interestin the act of mourning human losses with my experiences living in Athens, Greece, whereI encountered depression as a common diagnosis on both the individual and collectivelevels. If being depressed relates to unresolved mourning processes, what are the objectsof loss caused by economic crisis and political disillusion? How can art help us to mournan abstract loss, such as a political project, a certain sense of dignity, a particular relationwith time and nature, or a fixed role in the familial structure? How could mourning beshared to allow communities to reframe and re-signify those objects of loss, towardstransforming our relation to the economic and political?Lost and Shared creates dialogue between theory and affective labour, through collectiveexperiences that connect emotions, critical thinking, body and space. The intuitions andquestions brought by conversations with Greek activists and artists are the core of theproject. Later on, facing the impossibility of working as planned due to the pandemic, Lostand Shared was adapted to the new socializing conditions and to acknowledge how crisisand mourning had become a global concern. Thus, the project ends up proposing the ideaof “fertilizing mourning” as a concept in the making - an open invitation to collectivelycreate practices that help us reconsidering the entanglements between life, death, andregeneration. Urgent practices we need today in order to contest the increasing, globalprocesses of loss caused by capitalism."

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