Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
The City and the Event: Disturbing, Forgetting and Escaping Memory
The body‐mind's experience of space and place is shaped by that which it enters, inhabits or is impressed by when confronting the architectural. The Geometry of Conscience, created by Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar, represents victims of the Pinochet dictatorship established violently on the first 9/11 with the deposition and death of Salvador Allende, the democratically elected President of Chile. In this chapter, the author makes a conversation between this work and Rue Santa Fe, a film completed in 2007 by Carmen Castillo, former teacher of Latin American history, now writer and documentarist. The documentary film‐maker journeying back to a country in search of a house that she wanted to reclaim in order to appease the problem of unfinished memory allows the architectural but also symbolic and affective site, the house, to become the catalyst for the kind of enlivening of memory that Jaar also seeks: uncontained by the monuments that enable forgetting, memory reshaped as life becomes a living force that must also acknowledge the moment that is the present in which the call to responsibility is made, one to one. Both instances attest to the necessity for movement as the opposite of monumentalisation. The creation of something precarious and contingent on the human encounter transcends the pairing of remembering and forgetting and their partner forms, anamnesis and repression, in order to figure, continuously in Jaar's work and in the flash of recognition in Castillo's film, the vitality of active memory as movement.
The City and the Event: Disturbing, Forgetting and Escaping Memory
The body‐mind's experience of space and place is shaped by that which it enters, inhabits or is impressed by when confronting the architectural. The Geometry of Conscience, created by Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar, represents victims of the Pinochet dictatorship established violently on the first 9/11 with the deposition and death of Salvador Allende, the democratically elected President of Chile. In this chapter, the author makes a conversation between this work and Rue Santa Fe, a film completed in 2007 by Carmen Castillo, former teacher of Latin American history, now writer and documentarist. The documentary film‐maker journeying back to a country in search of a house that she wanted to reclaim in order to appease the problem of unfinished memory allows the architectural but also symbolic and affective site, the house, to become the catalyst for the kind of enlivening of memory that Jaar also seeks: uncontained by the monuments that enable forgetting, memory reshaped as life becomes a living force that must also acknowledge the moment that is the present in which the call to responsibility is made, one to one. Both instances attest to the necessity for movement as the opposite of monumentalisation. The creation of something precarious and contingent on the human encounter transcends the pairing of remembering and forgetting and their partner forms, anamnesis and repression, in order to figure, continuously in Jaar's work and in the flash of recognition in Castillo's film, the vitality of active memory as movement.
The City and the Event: Disturbing, Forgetting and Escaping Memory
Borden, Iain (Herausgeber:in) / Fraser, Murray (Herausgeber:in) / Penner, Barbara (Herausgeber:in) / Pollock, Griselda (Autor:in)
24.03.2015
6 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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