A History of Childhood Senses: War, Occupation, and the City as Playground

A History of Childhood Senses: War, Occupation, and the City as Playground

  • By: Eva Stefani, Zafos Xagoraris, Katerina Oikonomakou, and students from the Audiovisual Media Lab of the Department of Communications & Media Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

How did children experience the traumas of the 1940s and what sensorial memories have they carried with them into their old age? In this project, a documentary filmmaker, an artist whose practice combines archival research and sound technologies, and an investigative journalist recover memories on the verge of disappearance from the years of the Second World War. With a focus on memories of the touch, sight, smell, and taste of growing up in Greece in wartime, A History of Childhood Senses reveals how the youngest members of society experience acute crisis–shedding light on both the distinctiveness of childhood in 1940s Greece and the universality of certain childhood experiences. The project consists of an art installation and a digital archive that invite the public to experience another era through the eyes, ears, nose, and hands of a child.

PROJECT MATERIAL

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Portrait: Dimitris Kontargyris
Portrait: Yiannis Vogiatzis
Portrait: Thanasis Leventis
Portrait: Athina Sfiri
Portrait: Alexandros Papageorgiou-Venetas
Portrait: Adela Koukoubani-Stefani
Portrait: Vasiliki Metzou
Portrait: Lele Viogiatzi
Portrait: Tzeni Roussea
Portrait: Eleni (Lela) Farmaki-Patakia
Portrait: Manio Sofouli-Kontouma
Portrait: Chariklia Tsaliki
Portrait: Lucy Nicholas Kacandes
Portrait: Froso Protopappa

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