The Art of Memory Activism in the Global South
Andreas Huyssen, Columbia University, New York
Drawing on my recent book Memory Art in the Contemporary World: Confronting Violence in the Global South (Lund Humphries, 2022), this talk will explore different modes of art activism in the global South and their relationship to the memoryscapes of national histories of state violence.
Andreas Huyssen is the Villard Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York. His books include Twilight Memories: Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia (1995), Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory (2003), the edited volume Other Cities, Other Worlds: Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing World (Duke UP, 2008), William Kentridge and Nalini Malani: The Shadowplay as Medium of Memory (2013), Miniature Metropolis: Literature in an Age of Photography and Film (2015), and Memory Art in the Contemporary World: Confronting Violence in the Global South (2022).
TFDC G.41/G.56 Plenary Lecture Theatre MSA Conference Newcastle 2023 conference@memorystudiesassociation.orgThe Art of Memory Activism in the Global South
Andreas Huyssen, Columbia University, New York
Drawing on my recent book Memory Art in the Contemporary World: Confronting Violence in the Global South (Lund Humphries, 2022), this talk will explore different modes of art activism in the global South and their relationship to the memoryscapes of national histories of state violence.
Andreas Huyssen is the Villard Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York. His books include Twilight Memories: Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia (1995), Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory (2003), the edited volume Other Cities, Other Worlds: Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing World (Duke UP, 2008), William Kentridge and Nalini Malani: The Shadowplay as Medium of Memory (2013), Miniature Metropolis: Literature in an Age of Photography and Film (2015), and Memory Art in the Contemporary World: Confronting Violence in the Global South (2022).
