Memory Art in the Contemporary World
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Memory Art in the Contemporary World

Confronting Violence in the Global South

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eBook - ePub

Memory Art in the Contemporary World

Confronting Violence in the Global South

About this book

Memory Art in the Contemporary World deals with the ever-expanding field of transnational memory art, which has emerged from a political need to come to terms with traumatic historical pasts, from the Holocaust to apartheid, colonialism, state terror and civil war. The book focuses on the work of several contemporary artists from beyond the Northern Transatlantic, including William Kentridge, Vivan Sundaram, Doris Salcedo, Nalini Malani and Guillermo Kuitca, all of whom reflect on historical situations specific to their own countries but in work which has been shown to have a transnational reach. Andreas Huyssen considers their dual investment in memories of state violence and memories of modernism as central to the affective power of their work.
This thought-provoking and highly relevant book reflects on the various forms and critical potential of memory art in a contemporary world which both obsesses about the past, in the building of monuments and museums and an emphasis on retro and nostalgia in popular culture, and simultaneously fosters historical amnesia in increasingly flattened notions of temporality encouraged by the internet and social media.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Title Page
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword by Marcus Verhagen
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter 1. Disappearances/Spaces of Violence: Kuitca’s Painting and Salcedo’s Sculpture
  8. Chapter 2. Installation as Form: Sundaram’s Memorial and Salcedo’s Casa Viuda and Untitled
  9. Chapter 3. Installation in Urban Space: Salcedo, Noviembre 6 y 7, and Kentridge, Triumphs and Laments
  10. Chapter 4. The Shadow Play as Medium: Nalini Malani and William Kentridge
  11. Chapter 5. Traveling Trauma Tropes: Salcedo, Atrabiliarios, and Sundaram, 12 Bed Ward/Trash/The Ascension of Marian Hussain
  12. Chapter 6. Re-coding Museum Space: Salcedo, Shibboleth and Sundaram, History Project
  13. Chapter 7. Memory Museums: Santiago de Chile’s Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos and Bogotá’s Fragmentos
  14. Coda. Space/Time: Guzmán, Nostalgia de la luz and Kentridge, The Refusal of Time
  15. Afterword
  16. Notes
  17. Further Reading
  18. Image Credits