By Veronica Tello
Counter-Memorial Aesthetics, Tello argues, is characterised via its conjunction of heterogeneous signifiers and voices of again and again and areas, producing an experimental, non-teleological method of the development of up to date historical past, which additionally takes under consideration the complicated, disorienting spatial impacts of globalization. Spanning functionality artwork, experimental 'history painting', aftermath images and video install, counter-memorial aesthetics convey to the fore, Tello argues, how modern refugee flows and comparable disturbing occasions significantly problem and clash with many latest, drained if no longer additionally obdurate notions of nationwide id, borders, background and reminiscence.
Building at the writings of such thinkers as Michel Foucault and Jacques Rancière, this e-book bargains an invaluable thought of 'counter-memory' for the twenty-first century. It exhibits how counter-memorial aesthetics is not just critical to the nexus of up to date paintings and refugee histories but in addition the way it can supply a fashion of being severely current with many different, usually interrelated, international crises within the modern era.
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