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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 |