Theme:
7. 25 years after: The changing world and EAA's impact since the 1995 EAA Annual Meeting in Santiago
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
CANCELLED Investigative Memorialisation. Memorial in Becoming
Content:
This panel considers memorialisation as an investigative and anti-commemorative practice of reassembling, actualising, and activating knowledge in the present. Investigative memorialisation as a concept follows an assembling of a novel memorialisation praxis in order to display all aspects, contributors, interested parties, and the knowledge that surrounds a site of remembrance by creating a new form of thinking about the memorial as a changing (growing) knowledge in the making.
The idea behind this panel is to gather different knowledges and disciplines that reconsiders memorialisation practices as a changing, fluid, contextual and evolving processes. As our actuality is identified with the never ending war, investigative memorialisation becomes a nod in the entanglement of larger, global networks of socio-economic conditions revealing the ways in which nature, agriculture, labour laws, property regulations and everyday life continuously write into the place. The question became: how to produce (assemble) knowledge and insights that are inherent / immanent (to the) future memorial.
We invite papers from the fields of psychoanalysis, philosophy, cultural theory and feminism, together with archeology, history, anthropology, architectural theory, art, and activism to meet and work together on urgent contemporary questions such as war and capital; (neo)colonialism, property and extractivism; migration and labor conditions; environmental, gender, and class justice. In this sense investigative memorialisation seeks a collaborative and trans-disciplinary approaches. It seeks authors who understand and confront their disciplinary practices. In that sense it is also a non academic: it invites art as a practice that opens and creates new spaces, ones that does not conform to disciplinary boundaries as a way to resists the idea of professionalisation and the notion of expertise.
Keywords:
commemoration, memory, monument, trans-disciplinarity
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
no
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:
Main organiser:
Ana Bezic (Croatia) 1
Co-organisers:
Milica Tomic (Austria) 2
Affiliations:
1. University of Rijeka, Croatia
2. Graz University of Technology, Austria
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