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.
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