Volume 4, Number 1, February 2024
Memory: Sites, Trauma and Materiality, Memoria: Trauma, Sitios y Materialidad
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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 […]
Re-making Memory on Matiu and Other “Settlement” Sites
This article, written by a historian descended from Māori (and Pākehā) early settlers in Wellington, has three purposes. It reinscribes some whānau (extended family) history, hapu (sub-tribe) and iwi (tribal) histories onto the sites that co-hosted the Contained Memory Conference 2010: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and Massey University, Wellington. It then explores […]