As polarisation grows across the world, I seek entry points for contemplating conflict and divisions. How does education contribute to polarising viewpoints?
Through artistic research, I meditated on my personal relationship to competing historical interpretations taught to primary school children in Bosnia and Herzegovina since the 1990s war. I collected History school textbooks*, and played with their content to make paper collages titled "Into Which Narrative Was I Born?", exhibited at the History Museum of BiH in Sarajevo 7th July-31st August 2023.
The exhibition further featured as part of the international conference "Why Remember?", organized by the Peace and Conflict Culture Network in 2023.
This artistic research developed into a web conversation platform under the same title, exploring personal experiences of learning about History at schools worldwide. To access the conversation platform, please click here.
*My peer-reviewed chapter, which examines the teaching of competing histories in schools in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), is published at this link.