Podcast: Traces of War Exhibition

This podcast features exclusive interviews with the Traces of War artists Jananne Al-Ani, Baptist Coelho and Shaun Gladwell. Traces of War, reimagines war beyond its exceptionality, locating it in spaces where it would be least expected. At the same time, the art works reveal the sheer power of the everyday, as life itself and in its most ordinary makes its presence felt in the most dangerous locations of war. Artists from Goya to Dix variously and differently reveal the horrors of war and its imprint upon the body and the body politic, as if we might easily contrast the peace of the everyday with the destructive exceptionalism of war. However, the everyday also has a capacity to make its imprint on war, and this is shown most strongly in, for example, Mona Hatoum’s steel installation, Grater Divide (2002), where an everyday object, such as a kitchen utensil, acquires a menacing, frightening presence. For more information, visit http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/warstudies/traces/about.aspx Upcoming events: - A NEW PEACEKEEPING & PEACEBUILDING ARCHITECTURE? 24th October 2016 (12:30-14:00) in the War Studies Meeting Room (K. 6.07) - NATIONAL IDENTIFICATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 24th October 2016 (18:00-19:00) War Studies Meeting Room (K6.07) - THE ORIGINS AND DYNAMICS OF GENOCIDE: POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN GUATEMALA 25th October 2016 (18:00-19:30) Weston Room Maughan Library - THE INDIA-PAKISTAN WARS AND THE CONTEMPORARY RELEVANCE OF HISTORY 27th October 2016 (17:30-19:00) War Studies Meeting Room (K6.07) - WOMEN IN WAR AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS MOVIE NIGHT 27th October 2016 (19:00-21:00) War Studies Meeting Room (K6.07) Don’t forget to take some yummy snacks! For more information, visit http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/warstudies/events/