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====== Narva – Voices at the Border (2025) ======
**An artistic condensation of real discourses**

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====== Narva: Voices at the Border ======

**Narva** is not a periphery — it is a crossing point: language, history, and politics meet here directly.  
This project gathers fictionally condensed voices from Narva to make hard-to-reach perspectives audible and to open a field for encounter and reflection.
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[[narva:gb:stimmen_uebersicht|{{ :artwork:zeichnungen:narva:narva_01.jpg?direct&300|See the overview of voices}}]]
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**What you will find here:**  
  * [[narva:gb:stimmen_uebersicht|A collection of 11 “Voices”]] — fictional dialogues/monologues representing typical perspectives. These texts are artistic condensations, not literal documentation.  
  * Backstage material: [[narva:gb:methode|Method & Sources]], [[narva:gb:kooperation_mit_ki|Ethical Reflection]].
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====== Introduction: Narva – Voices at the Border ======

Narva is a city in eastern Estonia, directly on the border with Russia.  
About 98% of its population speaks Russian as their mother tongue.  
Since 2023, new legislation has tightened language policies: Russian is increasingly being removed from schools, administration, and public life.  
The city is thus seen as a symbolic test case for European integration and security policy.

The project **“Narva – Voices at the Border”** examines this situation from an artistic and research-oriented perspective.  
Based on public research, press reports, and analyses, **eleven fictionally condensed “Voices”** have been created,  
reflecting typical experiences and attitudes of both Russian- and Estonian-speaking residents.

The goal is to make social complexity tangible through empathy, context, and dialogue —  
not through journalistic proof, but through narrative approximation.

The work was created in cooperation between human authorship (**Stefan Budian**) and AI assistance (**Noyan / ChatGPT-5 & Euras / LeChat**) and sees itself as a contribution to a new type of digital culture of remembrance:  
a **shared authorship** between human and machine.

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[[narva:gb:stimmen_uebersicht|→ view the 11 Voices]] | [[narva:gb:methode|→ Method & Sources]] | [[narva:gb:kooperation_mit_ki|→ Collaboration with AI]]
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