In the Eastern Beskids range of the Carpathians...
In the Eastern Beskids range of the Carpathians...
In the Eastern Beskids range of the Carpathians...
The presented photographic, audio and video materials were collected as part of the project
Broadcasting from the Forgotten European Borderlands: Carpathian Watershed in the Polyphony of Voices.
Different interpretations of the past and memory politics overlap in the borderlands of nation-states around the Carpathian watershed. Memory is preserved in the borders but also in borderscapes, filled with national symbols and commemorations. Because of shifted state borders, migrations, smuggling, and matrimonial relations, the memory on borderlands resonates with a specific polyphony of voices.
This world can be explained only by a polyphony of voices
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In the twentieth century, the Carpathian territory was divided between the newly emerging states. Today, state borders run along mountain ridges and river valleys. In the valleys we can find dozens of traces of history, especially those dated to the last century. The land is dotted with memorials to heroes, liberators, meritorius people and victims. Traces of now non- existent countries: border posts and architectural features, also remind us of the past times.
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Traces of gone people
This area was affected by the Holocaust and mass deportations, which resulted in the disappearance of whole communities. Their traces are the graves of their ancestors, often greedily claimed back by nature, as well as the ruins of churches where local people at that time – praising the Creator in their prayers – most likely did not expect that fate would throw them out of their Carpathian homes.
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