The Society of Invisible Symptoms: Found in Dialogue
Nađa Kračunović, Nađa Stanojević
Date: 11/12 at 7 PM
Vagon Gallery
As part of the current exhibition *“A Woman’s Head Burned for 12 Days”*, we invite you to a conversation dedicated to invisible bodily symptoms, medical systems in the region, pain, and individual and collective practices that engage with them.
We open the discussion with questions that medicine often fails to hear—about symptoms without diagnosis, socio-political pressures, self-organization, and strategies of survival, drawing on examples from artistic and activist practices. Starting from the experience of living with multiple sclerosis, we will talk about how a non-normative body can find strength, space, and freedom through community. A self-organized MS support network that originated on Discord and today brings together people from across the region will be presented, along with personal examples and experiences from fellow participants, interlocutors, and the audience.
The evening concludes as a workshop: Nađe reads poems to her own symptoms and to women whose eyelids have kissed the floor, while the audience is invited to join with their own stories and experiences and to map their symptoms through a collective activation of the space.
Nađa Kračunović is an interdisciplinary artist who infuses everyday life with texts written by unruly hands.
Nađa Stanojević was born in Niš, and her roots are spread across the former Yugoslavia. She is an MS activist, entrepreneur, and dog mom.
