SMArt Talks: Shots for Thought – Art (and) History in Bosnia and Herzegovina from a Postcolonial View

This lecture traces the echoes of the shot fired at Archduke Franz Ferdinand, usually presented as the event that triggered all the evils of the 20th century, heard in contemporary artworks that challenge such narratives from a postcolonial perspective. What effects is this event said to have provoked, and which ones were forgotten? By revisiting the event as a reaction to the Habsburgs’ colonial activities in Bosnia, the lecture challenges exclusions of Bosnian (art) history from postcolonial discourses.