MEMORY

This anthology investigates the turn in art not only towards archives and histories, the relics of modernities past, but toward the phenomena, in themselves, of haunting and the activation of memory. It looks at a wide array of artistic relationships to memory a ssociation, repetition and reappearance, as well as forms of active forgetting. Its discussions encompass artworks from the late 1 940s onward, ranging from reperformances such as Marina Abramovics Seven Easy Pieces (embodied resurrections of decades-removed per formance piece...[Read more]