mnemosyne

Mnemosyne is a project inspired by the biographies of two women, Lenka Reinerova and Eva Grlić. Mnemosyne is about the trauma of the women persecuted, who ran out of the European cities in the 1930s and 1940s to save their lives: Lenka left Prague for Mexico, Eva left Zagreb and joined Partisans in fight against Nazis, fascists and quisling forces of all sorts. Mnemosyne is about history of Europe during the reign of nacism and fascism, it is about history that is today being put under the carpet woven of the illusions of global zoning, it is about the impossibility of the divided world, heated by the constant warmongering and uncertainties of global state of emergency, - to survive. 

Mnemosyne pinpoints the significance of the poetics of memory against politics of remembrance, but also the necessity of transnational remembrance: yes, nacism was won over in one part of Europe in 1945, but Franco had kept Spain under the fascist boot until he died. Jalta, that formal political dissolving of sins that enabled people like Rauff to die in Las Condes in Santiago de Chile, or ustasha emigration to spread its abominal indoctrination for generations in Argentina, Australia, and elsewhere. Jalta, when great figures of victory decided to punish Germany so that they punished 16-year old boys and girls, while the villains were already nesting across South America. 

Ah, Europe. Oh, America. Who makes the tropes so sad?

Oh, America. Ah, Europe.

Mnemosyne is today a platform that brings together four organizations from Belgrade, Vienna, Mostar and Zagreb, with the goal to resist the production of state of permanent emergency and warmongering, and aiming at creating conditions for continuous cooperation on transnational research and projects.