On the Factory’s Ruins: The Death of a Nation and the Birth of a Museum

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Abstract

Stuart Hall describes ‘living archives’ as a field of […] rupture, significant breaks, transformations, new and unpredicted departures’. For an artist, the interpretation of archival and historical materials is not solely an academic exercise; it can also be viewed as a societal intervention, where historical narratives are ruptured and re-contextualised, generating an emerging critical and contested site of reinterpretation. In this article I discuss my work as an artist and researcher with particular emphasis on cultural memory, archival formations and the production of contemporary artworks, including my recent video installation, UNresolved which reflects on the twentieth anniversary of genocide in Srebrenica.
Original languageEnglish
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016
EventIrish Museums Association Conference 2016 - , Ireland
Duration: 1 Jan 2016 → …

Conference

ConferenceIrish Museums Association Conference 2016
Country/TerritoryIreland
Period1/01/16 → …

Keywords

  • living archives
  • societal intervention
  • historical narratives
  • cultural memory
  • archival formations
  • contemporary artworks
  • genocide
  • Srebrenica

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