Volume 4, Number 1, February 2024
Memory: Sites, Trauma and Materiality, Memoria: Trauma, Sitios y Materialidad
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Montserrat (a phono-archaeology)
Abstract Ortega Ayala’s artwork has focused since 2012 on the ways in which societies and individuals remember, forget, or repress their past. The overarching title for these works is From the Pit of Et Cetera. ‘Montserrat (a phono-archaeology)’ (2017-2020) sits within this framework. It focuses on a British overseas territory in the Caribbean that was […]
Claims to Immediacy: The Artist as Historian and Eclipse at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
From 2014-2015, we (Sayler / Morris) exhibited a large-scale video installation commemorating the extinction of the passenger pigeon at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA). This article both describes the context of that piece and reflects more broadly on the role of the artist as historian. We argue for a form of history […]
Pupuri Pohewa: Collective Memory
Pupuri Pohewa was used as the Māori name for the Contained Memory Conference held at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, in December 2010. Because this international conference was hosted in Aotearoa New Zealand, the title would provide a cultural perspective on memory based on the traditions of the indigenous people of […]