Stories of Traumatic Pasts
Subtitle: Colonialism, Antisemitism, and Turbo-Nationalism
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH & Co KG; Hatje Cantz
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9783775748841
Description: "Belgian colonialism in the Congo. Antisemitism in Austria. Turbo-nationalism in former Yugoslavia. Over the last two centuries, these three historic lines of violence and annihilation (re)enforced a process of oblivion that to this day prevents a processing of the genocides they caused. Today involuntary or performed amnesia again threatens to destroy what has already come to a point of possible coexistence. This exhibition catalogue goes back to these traumatic events in history and the recent past, which had such a violent impact on communities and people, states and territories, and confront them with a system of interventions. The scars that remain after atrocities, although hidden and obliterated, are recovered through artistic, scientific, and political reflections"--back cover.