Summer School as School
3 - 18 July, 2016
Public Program
Tuesday, 12 July 2016 at 20:00
Tumen kanchi chi dzanen
Performance by Selma Selman
Venue: Boxing Club
Mark Isaku St. Prishtina
Republic of Kosovo
“Tumen kanchi chi dzanen” is a live piece, where I continually repeat the phrase, “Tumen kanchi chi dzanen”. This performance is a very intimate one. It is my frustration brought to life. You have no idea – you have no idea about my life as a whole. You do not who I am, nor do you know my happiness or sadness. You do not know about the presence or absence of pain in my life, nor how I feel at the moment that I perform this piece to a live audience. You have no idea.
Though this piece refers to the specific circumstances of my life, I believe that it carries a universal message. We have no idea about the struggles that others are facing. We have no idea, but we think that we do.
Selma Selman defines herself as an artist of Roma origins, and not a Romani artist. In her work, she wishes to break down prejudices that stereotype her community as a collective and claims her right to individual expression. She utilizes a multiplicity of art mediums, ranging from performance, painting, and photography to video installations, in order to express herself as an individual, a woman, and an artist. Selma was the recipient of the prestigious “Zvono Award”, given to the best young artist in Bosnia and Herzegovina, winning her a residency in New York City. Her work has been shown at numerous international festivals including several solo exhibitions, with “Postojim – I exist” being her first solo show in the United States, exhibited at Dreamland Gallery. Selma was born in 1991. in Bihać, Bosnia and Herzegovina, currently living and working in New York.
Main supporters of SSAS 2016:
ERSTE Foundation, The Austrian Federal Chancellery, Trust for Mutual Understanding (TMU), Ministry of Education of the Republic of Kosovo and RIT Kosovo.
SSAS 2016 is also supported by:
Culture for All - phase III, Municipality of Prishtina, Kosovo Foundation for Open Society (KFOS), Independent Curators International (ICI) , The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Prishtina Office, Ministry of Diaspora of the Republic of Kosovo, Austrian Embassy in Pristina, Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Priština, Ambassade de France à Pristina, Youth Initiative for Human Rights Office in Belgrade, AMM, X-Print and DZG.