In Context Journal

Our hearts are heavy but our vision is clear: listening is a critically important act. In Leyla Vural's exploration of Jill Stauffer's "Ethical Loneliness," we identify and face our limits:

"If a narrator is to be able to tell her story on her own terms, the interviewer has to 'make an effort to create a setting where people can draw their own lines and make their own decisions about it. If we don’t begin at a minimum with this, the project of what Stauffer calls 'just hearing' is doomed. Stauffer means 'just' in both senses: simply listening and giving a fair hearing to. But as she illustrates, there’s nothing simple about the act of listening."

Read more: http://www.incontextjournal.com/vural-reading-in-berlin/

Reading in Berlin: Thoughts on Jill Stauffer’s Ethical Loneliness – In Context Journal Reading in Berlin: Thoughts on Jill Stauffer’s Ethical Loneliness by Leyla Vural Issue #1 Stumbling stones remembering five homeless men who were sent to their death at Sachsenhausen were installed near Berlin’s World Clock in April. Image provided by author The TV Tower at Alexanderplatz dominates…

Happy Friday from ICJ! Here's some viewing for your weekend - an experimental film from Jacob J. Podber, whom we had the great pleasure of meeting at the Oral History Association annual meeting last week.

"Vishneva, Belarus Soviet Union Poland, is grounded in the oral history testimony of a Holocaust survivor and has been deconstructed by the interviewee’s son. Unlike most oral histories that focus on the words of the interviewee, Vishneva uses silent images from the interview superimposed with typed memories that describe the unspoken pain borne by father and son through more than half a century."

http://www.incontextjournal.com/podber-vishneva-belarus-soviet-union-poland/

Vishneva, Belarus Soviet Union Poland – In Context Journal Vishneva, Belarus Soviet Union Poland by Jacob J. Podber Issue #1 Still from Vishneva, Belarus Soviet Union Poland Statement from the artist Vishneva, Belarus Soviet Union Poland, is grounded in the oral history testimony of a Holocaust survivor and has been deconstructed by the interviewee’s son. U...