Ellipsis, folds of memory welcomes you to its five-day inaugural program, consisting of 13 multidisciplinary practitioners from the Balkans and the Middle East, whose works probe, speculate upon, and reclaim archives and narratives in the context of the intimate, hidden, left-over, displaced, suspended and overwritten. The program centers on existence in the state of fallout and re-creation, exploring the collaborative capacities of thinking through possible futures.

Structured through conversations, workshops, performances, and screenings, the programmed works propose an array of responses to the condition of the aftermath: relieving, repairing, revisiting, countering, revising, re-membering, re-imagining, recreating — across mediums, sites, temporalities and disciplines.

Participants: Adela Jušić, Adnan Softić, Aida Šehović, Danijela Dugandžić, Kemil Bekteši, Miloš Trakilović, Nikolas Kosmatopoulos, Noor Abed, Roï Saade, Stefan Pavlović, Tamara Abdul Hadi, Temra Pavlović, Vladimir Tomić, Yasmine Khayyat
Keynote speaker: Nihad Kreševljaković
Moderators: Claudia Zini, Hana Ćurak, Nebojša Jovanović, Paul Lowe, Uroš Čvoro, Ziyah Gafić
Curators: Rola Khayyat and Koštana Banović
Project coordinator: Sandra Popadic

Ellipsis is funded by VCUarts, and is in partnership with the Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Manifesto Gallery, Kuma International, VII academy, Atelje Figure, artTrace Foundation and Kamen Foundation.

This is the first installment of the ellipsis projects, planned with a follow up in Beirut in 2024.