Week 10- Art in Public Spaces,


MEMORY STRUCTURES


WHO IS MOBILIZING WHAT IN THE ARTICULATION OF THE PAST, DEPLOYING

WHAT IDENTITIES, IDENTIFICATIONS AND REPRESENTATIONS AND IN THE

NAME OF WHAT POLITICAL VISION AND GOALS?


Slide Presentation:

Jochen Gerz and Esther Shalev-Gerz "Harburger Denkmal gegen Faschismus"

(Harburg Monument against Fascism), projects by "Repo history" concerning the

re-inscription of a communal past in Manhattan neighborhoods, Maya Lin

(Vietnam Memorial Monument)


Reading:

James E. Young, "The Counter-Monument against Itself in Germany Today" in,

ed., W.J.T. Mitchell, Art and the Public Sphere


Suggested Reading:

James Young, ed., Holocaust Memorials in History: The Art of Memory (1997)

Jacques Derrida, Memoires for Paul de Man, (New York: Columbia University

Press, 1986)


group project

Collaboratively the piece is created II), press work