Volume 4, Number 1, February 2024
Memory: Sites, Trauma and Materiality, Memoria: Trauma, Sitios y Materialidad
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Artificial Memory?
Abstract This brief essay examines the impact new technologies, like augmented reality and AI creations, are impacting public memory. While there are many concerns about the erosion of authenticity, some artists are using new technologies to create a more diverse, robust, and optimistic version of the memory landscape. Memory Connection has long served as a […]
The Discursive Memory of Argentina’s Last Dictatorship in an Intelligence Archive
Abstract This essay examines the discursive memory of Argentina’s Last Dictatorship identified in documents produced by the Intelligence Directorate of the Buenos Aires Provincial Police (DIPPBA) during the democratic period. It explains its theoretical-methodological framework and outlines some lines of thought to compare the discursive memory notion with public memory. This essay examines the discursive […]
The Profanity of Memory: Temporality and the Rhetoric of ‘Too Soon’
The temporality of public memory is perhaps most evident when there are objections that some irreverent comment is made ‘too soon’ after a traumatic event. This essay explores this dimension of sacred temporality and a corollary sense of sacred space in relation to moments and spaces of remembrance.
Witness: An Autobiographical Performance
The song ‘Witness’ is an autobiographical telling of the performer’s experiences as a witness in a court case in the summer of 2014. The presentation takes the form of a Pecha Kucha — a 20×20 presentation format showing 20 slides, each for 20 seconds. The slides forming the background to the performance are solid, objective, permanent. They present the […]
Materialising Memory: The Public Lives of Roadside Crash Shrines
This is a study in two parts. First I explore the containment and effervescence of traumatic memory in roadside crash shrines, vernacular memorial assemblages built by private individuals at sites where family or friends have died in automobile accidents. Secondly I suggest that the ongoing production of spaces of mourning not only materialises memory, but […]