House of Drafts/ Dom Promaha is a virtual apartment building inhabited by the imaginary characters created by eight Bosnian and two American media artists. Our characters have refused the opportunities of exile and instead have chosen to stay in Sarajevo. We invite you to enter this apartment building through our website as a way of meeting the characters who live here.
This building relies on an architecture comprised of images, sounds and text. The project as a whole is shaped by our autobiographical experiences as they are filtered through poetic reflections, original music, and video. From a performance artist who moonlights as a de-miner, to a cinematographer who uses his camera to turn a decaying Sarajevo into a bustling Bangkok, to a traveler caught by the inferno of a burning library -- the website and video represent our ruminations on a city and its inhabitants during and after a period of war. On the website you are invited not only to enter and explore our House of Drafts but also to participate by leaving your own writing and images on the walls of the space.
Created by Jeanne
C. Finley (San Francisco) and Lynne
Sachs (New York) with the participation of Larisa Hasanbegovic, Adla Isanovic,
Timur Makarevic, Tvico Muhidin, Alma Suljevic and Enes Zlater (Sarjevo, Bosnia
Herzogovina).
Web site consultation and development donated by Teri Rueb. Line producing and
music composition of the videotape by Enes Zlater.
Supported by ArtsLink,
the Trust for Mutual Understanding, the Sarajevo Center for Contemporary Art
and Women Make Movies. The House of Drafts is available on videotape by contacting
the artists through the site address.