Afteraffects Afterimages Trauma And Aesthetic Transformation In The Virtual Feminist Museum
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2013
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9780719087981
Description: "Do artists travel away from or towards trauma? Is trauma encrypted or inscribed in art? Or can aesthetic practices (after-images) bring about transformation of trauma, personal trauma or historical traumas? Can they do this in a way that does not imply cure or resolution of the traces (after-affects) of trauma? How do artists themselves process these traces as participants in and sensors for our life-worlds and histories, and how does the viewer, coming belatedly or from elsewhere, encounter works bearing such traces or seeking forms through which to touch and transform them?