Emotional Encyclopedia of War
Listening session in the presence of Anna Kravets
An Emotional Encyclopedia of War is a radio art project launched in the summer of 2022, that attempts to question the transformation that comes with war via the locus of emotional emergency. In her auto-ethnographic radio piece, Anna Kravets describes her feelings of living during war, integrating in it a palette of experiences which belong to others, strangers, foreigners.
Trying to get a grip on the new emotional states she’d undergone, 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.
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).
Flagey, Week van de Klank / Semaine du Son