Grupa Spomenik / The Monument Group

Forensic Architecture, an ERC Project & The Centre for Research Architecture presents a Roundtable Seminar.

Where the genocide was, there shall the political subject be—a forensic performance.

In the context of the contemporary war and in the field of art, Grupa Spomenik conducts forensics of the
discourse of the politics of terror. The main feature of the contemporary-permanent-war is that it does
not contain the concept of peace as its political condition. Rather, such a permanent war intends the
erasure of the political subject.

Examining the case of the Srebrenica genocide, Grupa Spomenik explores the conditions of the
production of the contemporary war, the doctrines of ‘reconciliation’, and the ideological conditions of
their functioning. The situation of genocide entails the execution of the political subject and the
”Denkverbot” (prohibition against thinking) of the political. The coalition between forensic science,
contemporary bureaucracy and religion that surrounds the process of re-associating the remains
(identity) of those executed in the genocide perpetuates the politics of terror that was responsible for the
genocide.

By conducting a forensics of the discourse of the politics of terror, Grupa Spomenik suspends the logic of
the perpetuation of genocide by other means and in the process locates possible sites for the
appearance of the political subject—sites that resist quantification, identification, and sacralization.

Since 2002, Grupa Spomenik, a Yugoslav-based theory-artistic group, has produced public spaces for a
political and critical-ideological discussion of the wars and their consequences in the Socialist Federative
Republic of Yugoslavia.

Its international work commenced in 2008, with the project Mathemes of re-association. Focusing on the
Srebrenica genocide, Grupa Spomenik examines the conditions under which art can produce its own
discourse on the genocide and the contemporary-permanent-war.

Grupa Spomenik is Damir Arsenijevic, Ana Bezic, Jasmina Husanovic, Pavle Levi, Jelena Petrovic, Branimir
Stojanovic, and Milica Tomic.

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13 May 2011	10:30am - 6:00pm	apple google outlook

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