After Collective Memory: Postnational Europe and Socially Engaged Art

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dc.contributor.advisorReisenleitner, Markus
dc.creatorSynenko, Joshua Francis
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-16T19:22:49Z
dc.date.available2015-12-16T19:22:49Z
dc.date.copyright2015-07-03
dc.date.issued2015-12-16
dc.date.updated2015-12-16T19:22:49Z
dc.degree.disciplineHumanities
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractThis thesis focuses on works of public art that enjoy proven success in challenging the national bias of European heritage practice. By developing methods at the intersection between collective memory, critical historiography, and theory, I situate heritage debates in relation to forms of discrimination that emerged as symptoms of the financial crisis (2008-present). I then describe how public art interventions help to unsettle the grand narratives of cosmopolitan idealism that work to neutralize anti-racist strategies in the public sphere. The progression of my thesis eventually poses a challenge to the cosmopolitan reach of the Jewish diasporic tradition in particular. To that end, I explore the archival strategies of Holocaust memory practitioners, including their express aim of including diverse (i.e. non-Jewish) histories of violent exclusion into the historical record; the social and political conditions for the emergence of counter-monuments in West Germany during the 1970s, and the subsequent efforts that were made to turn this memorial aesthetic into a global standard for the memory culture industry; the haunting resurgence of cosmopolitan aspirations in Yael Bartana’s video installation, And Europe Will Be Stunned (2011); and a meditation on Bartana’s attempt at revisiting the racial dynamics of intergenerational violence in the aftermath of genocide.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/30693
dc.language.isoen
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dc.subjectEuropean studies
dc.subjectPolitical Science
dc.subjectAesthetics
dc.subject.keywordsavant-garde
dc.subject.keywordsEurope
dc.subject.keywordscollective memory
dc.subject.keywordscosmopolitan citizenship
dc.subject.keywordscounter-monument
dc.subject.keywordsculture industry
dc.subject.keywordscultural theory
dc.subject.keywordsearthworks
dc.subject.keywordsgenocide
dc.subject.keywordsJewish
dc.subject.keywordsmemorial intervention
dc.subject.keywordsmigrant narratives
dc.subject.keywordsperformance art
dc.subject.keywordspost-holocaust
dc.subject.keywordspostnational
dc.subject.keywordsracialization
dc.subject.keywordsYael Bartana
dc.titleAfter Collective Memory: Postnational Europe and Socially Engaged Art
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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