Ukrainian soldiers engage in intensive combat training at an unmarked location; a female choir rehearse in a Sarajevo theatre once used to stage defiant performances during the Bosnian War; youths gather at Homer’s Tomb on the Greek island of Ios, a span of the Mediterranean through which asylum see...

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Other Authors:	Pinchuk, Stanislava 1988- (Photographer), Ellis, Justine (Editor), Holmes, Ashton 1978- (Editor), Rule, Dan (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Melbourne, Australia Perimeter Editions [2024]
Edition:	First edition
Series:	Perimeter Editions 098
Subjects:	Pinchuk, Stanislava > 1988- Bildband
Summary:	Ukrainian soldiers engage in intensive combat training at an unmarked location; a female choir rehearse in a Sarajevo theatre once used to stage defiant performances during the Bosnian War; youths gather at Homer’s Tomb on the Greek island of Ios, a span of the Mediterranean through which asylum seekers make their treacherous journeys. Published as a visual translation of her major three-channel moving image work The Theatre of War, Stanislava Pinchuk’s first book with Perimeter Editions recasts the opening lines of Homer’s epic poem the Iliad across geography, history, language, and the throes of current armed conflict. Just as the Iliad is set nine years into the Trojan War, Pinchuk undertook the making of The Theatre of War – which was created as part of the Mordant Family Moving Image Commission and debuted at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) from 19 February to 10 June 2024 – nine years into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. As with much of the Sarajevo-based, Ukrainian-Australian artist’s work, the film and its translation into book form work to map the contours of global conflict with great sensitivity, poeticism, and unexpected beauty. Here, she weaves together three charged performances which draw on the oral and folk traditions from which the Iliad evolved; just as the poem contains many gruesome descriptions of death on the battlefield, so do these performers focus our attention on both the life-force and vulnerability of bodies in contemporary theatres of war. In antiquity, the Iliad was recited by rhapsodes over three days, often to the mnemonic beat of an accompanying lyre. In Pinchuk’s work, the opening stanza is also recited over three different days, across three different theatres of war: a stage which held important cultural resistance during the Siege of Sarajevo; a combat training facility for Ukrainian soldiers that was once used for military...
Item Description:	First edition of 1000
Physical Description:	165 Seiten
ISBN:	9781922545343