Victims' Symptom Theorists
Sezgin Boynik (Kosovo) - Force of trauma
Force of trauma tries to show how some contemporary art scenes are influenced by recent traumatic events. Case studies will specifically include contemporary art produced in Kosovo and in Diyarbakir. Sezgin Boynik will analyse and compare art produced in these two regions in order to show how some historical circumstances have an effect on transforming traumatic experiences. He will also try to show how some artists from Kosovo, where trauma is relatively in the past, are silencing the effects and memory of their traumatic experiences. He uses the theories of Shoshana Felman to analyse young artist Jakup Ferri from Kosovo and to compare his practice with the artist and writer Sener Ozmen from Diyarbakir.
Sezgin Boynik completed his graduate studies in Mimar Sinan University Sociology Department with a thesis on Situationist International in 2003. He prepared the book "Nationalism and Contemporary Art" with Minna Henriksson and ''History of Punk and Underground Resources in Turkey 1978-1999'' with Tolga Güldallý in 2007. Currently living in Pristina, Kosovo, he lectures at the Faculty of Philology at the University of Pristina.
