Memory Structures

• Week 10

Who is mobilizing what in the articulation of the past, deploying which identities, identifications and representations and in the name of which political visions 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