FILM / TALK "Memories - Memorials - Memorializations" The Politics of Remembering and Forgetting > 13th, 14th & 15th November 2017
Venue : Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg
Time : various timings
Event Description : FILM / TALK "Memories - Memorials - Memorializations" The Politics of Remembering and Forgetting
Monday, 13 November: Film Screenings
Tuesday, 14 November: Programme Introduction & Keynote Lecture
Wednesday, 15 November: Artists’ Response to Memorials & Panel Discussion
Armed conflicts, political and genocidal violence have shaped to a great extent how we remember the twentieth century. While, both the First and Second World Wars left the world in disarray and turmoil, the Holocaust, a crime unprecedented in history, called into question many existing ways of commemorating the past, of addressing, framing and memorializing violence, its victims and material legacies. This pertained also to the traditional form of monument, which glorified military victories, national myths or heroic political figures. Especially in Germany, the need to confront the country’s legacy of violence has resulted in an exploration of the potential of art to foster critical remembering – one engaged with ‘negative memory’ and carrying a deep sense of guilt, shame and remorse.
Numerous art works and installations emerged in the 1980s and 1990s to give rise to a new form of commemorative monument – the counter-monument. Considered as much ethical and political as aesthetic practice, the counter-monument deliberately subverted the genre of hero monument to address the issues of loss but also of culpability, and accountability in the aftermath of political violence. Throughout Europe and beyond, the counter-monumental aesthetic has now assumed a dominant position in memorial projects focusing on instances of political violence. In this way – caught in contemporary ‘memory boom’ – the counter-monument also lost much of its critical potential. It is against this backdrop that this conference asks about present day artistic, civic, and conceptual engagements with political violence and their potential to foster critical remembering – and, equally important, critical forgetting. Our intention is to look at memorial practices, both in Europe and beyond, that in various ways take on the counter-monumental project, traverse or radicalize it, in a search for new means of addressing, framing and memorializing violence. It is, nevertheless, not only the question of how to remember political violence that is of interest; the growing criticism of the ‘memory boom’, its contribution to ‘memory fatigue’ and apparent inability to tame or prevent new instances of violence from happening, bring to the fore new questions pertaining to the benefits and risks of remembering and forgetting. Initiated by Farah Batool and Leonhard Emmerling of the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi and curated by Zuzanna Dziuban (University of Amsterdam) the conference brings together scholars, academics and artists, who take divergent stances on the question of remembering and forgetting, addressing it from different conceptual, cultural, geographical and political perspectives.
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Time : various timings
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Venue : Siddhartha Hall, Lawns & Library, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi-110001
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Venue : Siddhartha Hall, Lawns & Library, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi-110001
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Barakhamba(Blue Line)'
Monday, 13 November: Film Screenings
Tuesday, 14 November: Programme Introduction & Keynote Lecture
Wednesday, 15 November: Artists’ Response to Memorials & Panel Discussion
Armed conflicts, political and genocidal violence have shaped to a great extent how we remember the twentieth century. While, both the First and Second World Wars left the world in disarray and turmoil, the Holocaust, a crime unprecedented in history, called into question many existing ways of commemorating the past, of addressing, framing and memorializing violence, its victims and material legacies. This pertained also to the traditional form of monument, which glorified military victories, national myths or heroic political figures. Especially in Germany, the need to confront the country’s legacy of violence has resulted in an exploration of the potential of art to foster critical remembering – one engaged with ‘negative memory’ and carrying a deep sense of guilt, shame and remorse.
Numerous art works and installations emerged in the 1980s and 1990s to give rise to a new form of commemorative monument – the counter-monument. Considered as much ethical and political as aesthetic practice, the counter-monument deliberately subverted the genre of hero monument to address the issues of loss but also of culpability, and accountability in the aftermath of political violence. Throughout Europe and beyond, the counter-monumental aesthetic has now assumed a dominant position in memorial projects focusing on instances of political violence. In this way – caught in contemporary ‘memory boom’ – the counter-monument also lost much of its critical potential. It is against this backdrop that this conference asks about present day artistic, civic, and conceptual engagements with political violence and their potential to foster critical remembering – and, equally important, critical forgetting. Our intention is to look at memorial practices, both in Europe and beyond, that in various ways take on the counter-monumental project, traverse or radicalize it, in a search for new means of addressing, framing and memorializing violence. It is, nevertheless, not only the question of how to remember political violence that is of interest; the growing criticism of the ‘memory boom’, its contribution to ‘memory fatigue’ and apparent inability to tame or prevent new instances of violence from happening, bring to the fore new questions pertaining to the benefits and risks of remembering and forgetting. Initiated by Farah Batool and Leonhard Emmerling of the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi and curated by Zuzanna Dziuban (University of Amsterdam) the conference brings together scholars, academics and artists, who take divergent stances on the question of remembering and forgetting, addressing it from different conceptual, cultural, geographical and political perspectives.
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FILM / TALK "Memories - Memorials - Memorializations" The Politics of Remembering and Forgetting > 13th, 14th & 15th November 2017
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