Fotografija Sanje Vrzić za The Borders Project, EuropeNow Journal, kao odgovor na „Of Card Games and Kisses“ Daniele Valente ~ Photo by Sanja Vrzić for The Borders Project, EuropeNow Journal, in response to "Of Card Games and Kisses," by Daniela Valenta
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Krajem 2015, dok su ljudi migrirali širom Europe i bili zaustavljani na granicama zemalja Balkana i drugdje, mi smo započele kolaboraciju sa Narrative Collective-om – grupom spisateljica iz Atlante. Odlučile smo da našu razmjenu nazovemo THE BORDERS PROJECT, te da stvaramo pisana djela kao odgovor na temu „granice“, čak i u trenutku kada smo sklapale prijateljstva sa kolegama iz inostranstva. To smo uspjele postići kroz online radionice, usput razmjenjujući mišljenja o djelima. Na proljeće te godine, zajedno smo održale prekogranično čitanje u Goat Arts Center-u u Atlanti – naše prijateljice iz Narrative Collective-a su lično čitale svoja djela, a mi smo svoja predstavile kroz prethodno snimljena videa. Možete više pročitati o tom događaju na blogu Asymptote Journal-a ovdje. Nešto kasnije, EuropeNow Journal iz New York-a je pristao objaviti cijelu kolekciju dijela koja smo stvorili, te su dodali i kategoriju 'Borders Project' u njihovu književnu rubriku. Kroz šest mjeseci i šest izdanja, objavili smo 17 tekstova – na engleskom jeziku u originalu i na prvorazrednom prijevodu na engleski našeg Mirze Purića. Svaki tekst sadrži i fotografski odgovor bosansko-hercegovačkog fotografa/fotografkinje. Sudjelovalo je ukupno 6 fotografa i iznimno nam je drago da smo imale priliku uključiti njihova djela te uvećati našu zajednicu preko umjetničkih granica.
Sadržaj naše stranice možete pogledati ovdje. Na samom vrhu se nalazi esej o projektu. Zaseban link za taj esej pod nazivom "The Borders Project: Sarajevo Writers’ Workshop + Atlanta’s Narrative Collective" kojeg je napisala Stacy Mattingly, možete naći ovdje.
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In late 2015, as people were migrating across Europe and being stopped at borders in the Balkans and elsewhere, we began an artistic collaboration with a group of writers in Atlanta called Narrative Collective. We decided to name our exchange THE BORDERS PROJECT and to create writing in response to the "borders" theme, even as we created friendships with our colleagues overseas. We did that, via an online workshop -- giving each other feedback along the way. The following spring, we held a cross-borders reading at Atlanta’s Goat Farm Arts Center along with our friends in Narrative Collective -- they presented their work in person, we via pre-recorded video. You can read about that event at Asymptote Journal’s blog here. Later, EuropeNow Journal in New York agreed to publish the package of work we produced and added a Borders Project category to their Literary section. Over a period of six months, and six issues, we published 17 texts -- in English and in our Mirza Purić’s very fine English translation. Each text includes a photographic response provided by a Bosnian photographer -- 6 photographers participated, and we are so glad to have had the opportunity to include their work, enlarging our community across an artistic border.
You can find our Contents page here. Pinned to the top is an essay about the project. A separate link to that essay, "The Borders Project: Sarajevo Writers’ Workshop + Atlanta’s Narrative Collective," can be found here.
Spisateljice / Writers
Selma Asotić
Naida Avdović
Marina Alagić Bowder
Neđla Ćemanović
Nermana Česko
Dijala Hasanbegović
Melanie Jordan
Kulović Selma
Esther Lee
Rachael Maddux
Stacy Mattingly
L.S. McKee
Suzanne Mozes
Máire C. Ryan
Matea Šimić
Kate Tuttle
Daniela Valenta
Zerina Zahirović
Prevoditelj / Translator
Mirza Purić
Fotografi / Fotografkinje / Photographers
Vanja Čerimagić
Nerma Sofić
Merisa Bašić
Dario Kristić
Sanja Vrzić
Kenan Muslić