NOOSE AND CRYSTAL — thgeorge.com

Theresa George (*1984) is a film anthropologist based in Hamburg. From 2005 to 2013, she studied cultural anthropology, journalism and political science in Leipzig. Since then, she has co-developed films and videos in changing constellations, works for film festivals, curates her own programmes and teaches visual anthropology.

NOOSE AND CRYSTAL WERE CREATED FROM THE SAME PRESSURE (2014)

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Adnan Softić deals with the complex problematic of exile. The book is about the state one gets into when one is thrown out of history. Roughly speaking, as soon as there is a break, history always begins to falter. The narrative lines that mark the path of life tear or become knotted and the past can no longer be understood. These are times when one moves outside one's own boundaries.

Softić's book is about speechlessness, the dislocation and disgruntlement of the body, the confusion of times and the accumulation of failures. It revolves around open wounds and asks the question: what does history mean at all? He describes displacement as an existential caesura, and although being displaced is usually a collective experience, it brings with it the most intimate feelings of isolation. Now and then, crystalline structures can be found in the exiles' shattered experiences, but mostly the torn threads of their own history become knotted and tangled into traps and loops

Book by Adnan Softic, 128 pages, 120 x 190 mm, hardcover

Published by Textem Verlag
Language: German
ISBN: 978-3864850844

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