An Emotional Encyclopedia of War is a radio art project launched in the summer of 2022 that investigates the transformation that comes with war via the locus of emotional emergency. Trying to get a grip on the new emotional states she’d undergone, Anna Kravets still questions the imperceptibility of war experience. Having realized how discordant it is with the life beyond its borders, she tries to invent frameworks that would pass under the framing barriers of mass media coverage.
In her auto-ethnographic radio piece, Anna describes her feelings of living during war, integrating them in a palette of experiences which belong to others, strangers, foreigners. Those were collected in different places from 2022 onward as part of Emergency Rehearsal series that became a tool for mutual translation and acknowledgement of complicated experience. Called out in a time of war, those experiences are featured in her piece together with her desperate attempts of reflection and composing sound in a post-invasion paralysis.
The project was born in a residency with SEMI SILENT, Q-O2, ASCR. In 2023, it traveled to CTM festival as part of its Radio Lab with Deutschlandfunk Kultur, ORF musikprotokoll im steirischer herbst festival, Ö1 Kunstradio, The Wire magazine and Goethe-Institut. A new iteration of Emergency Rehearsal took place during Sonic Narratives festival in Timisoara (Romania).
Voices, contributors and participants:
Aditi Srivastava Alessandra Prado Soler Alice Hui-Sheng Chang Amin Behmanesh Annu Koetter Carmelo Ianuzzo Caroline Profanter Constanze Aka Diana Duta Dimitra Kousteridou Erika Sirola Golo Föllmer Greg Kieser Hanna Sauer Joachim Glaude Julia Eckhardt Juliette Escudé Kai-Uwe Reinhold Laetitia Defendini Mamoru Watanabe Michel Ivor Nir Jacob Sabri Meddeb Tanya Ringer Virgile Loiseau Wouter Hillaert Wynona Ringer
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Conducting Emergency Rehearsal, a series of interactive sessions, Anna Kravets is studying emergency’s various facettes and emotional challenges, inviting others to think together about how to get around in the labyrinth of war that the world is increasingly falling into.
An Emergency Rehearsal session will take place at Flagey right before the listening session, at 14:00. Don’t forget to register here. (Max 30 participants)