(Artist Interviews, Questionnaries, Sign Installation, Berlin/Prishtina) 2001
Why I posed these questions in my questionnaires instead of others
In 2001, I travelled to Pristina for the first time. The city was overflowing with so-called "internationals," and I perceived my situation as being quite similar to those of the others from abroad: I was strongly interested both in the recent war and in its prehistory. It became evident to me, however, that while certain questions could be posed, I would need to refrain from asking other ones, either because it would have been inappropriate for me, as an outsider, to ask them, or because some questions simply had no immediate answers. For this reason, when designing the surveys I distributed in the city (and for purposes of comparison, in Berlin as well), I decided to ask very general questions, and to approach the differing situations of the two cities in a more atmospheric than argumentative way. A comparison between the surveys from Pristina and from Berlin gives rise to questions concerning the possible globality of our ways of thinking and acting.
Judith Siegmund
