23_11_2019_17:00 -__ transit and NOB commemoration room at the train station_rijeka
the first site-specific public meeting in čardak/çardak
with activist from second home in exile from ljubljana, mmsu, kibla, fiumani and friends from other places
inside the cardak and views from čardak on the trains arrivals/departure section (left) and on the city (right)
photos from cardak: damir ugljen
..the meeting in čardak was to cross our experiences, research and engagement of migration and impermanence – Servet, Karla, Armina with Armin, Aigul, Zaher and Matej that was on:
1 — inter-media displays between video projections showing servets’ video ‘watchtower’ (Ankara 2015), Karla video on migrations paths from Rijeka since world wars until today (Rijeka 2019) and stone commemoration from 1970ties on the victims of fascism from the WWII who were also workers of the train station in rijeka in that historical time..
2 —- silent and bit louder telling of the experiences from Zaher and Servet about being born as a refugee in Iran from Afghan parents and Sirnak the Kurdish city in Turkey — many of us do not even know where these places actually are on the map or in the cosmos — far but close
3 — reading the poem ‘Putovi/Paths’ of Mak Dizdar, bosnian/yugoslavian poet — our translation of some significant parts for us of the one verse, the parts and paths that we crossed with our bodies
……………………………………………………………………………….armin i armina čitaju zajedno Putovi/Paths
Ti poznaješ samo one puteve
Što prolaze
Od srca
I
Oka
Ali to nije sve
Ima puteva što su se ispružili pred nama
Bez javnog traga kolovoza
Bez voznog reda
Bez vremena
I roka
………………………………………………………………………………armin and armina reading Putovi/Paths
you only know those paths
that are passing through
from the heart
and
the eye
but that is not all
there are paths that stretched out in front of us
without public trace of the rails
without timetable
without time
and date
………………………………………………………………
4 — violin voice against the borders drawn on the different locations on the land performed by matej
on the croatian borders and other countries on the western balkan route…illegal ‘pushbacks’ are performed by the police….very violent and often results to death people on the move
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