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"Experimental, documentary, conceptual and innovative practices based on processuality, temporality, disposable material, archiving the performative as well as on the new media are in the focus of the theoreticians and artists whose texts we have prepared for this book. All of them, divided into four distinctly defined parts--1. Can sorrow be inherited? 2. Sitting in Front of the Screen, Seeing Nothing 3. Learning from History 4. Revealing the Overlooked--are characterised by a contextualisation that does not conform to traditional institutional patterns. Even though in some cases they represent a continuation of what preceded them, the artistic practices of our concern here are in fact only a segment of a far wider context which cannot be entirely retold. The processes of self-archiving, the awareness of the importance of what exists beyond the artistic domain and what needs to be documented and represented, the imposed exiles and the need to belong are elements of works that question the causes." Sandra Križić Roban (from the preface).