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Remains To Be Seen: Recollecting Memory, Nathanael Kooperkamp
Remains To Be Seen: Recollecting Memory, Nathanael Kooperkamp
Masters Theses
Abstract
Remains to be Seen, a multi-media installation, provides the opportunity for reconfiguration, re-contextualization and re-remembering of visual memory. Geoffry Cubit, a historian of memory, has noted that “memory has no fixed, stable, unitary meaning to which we can invariably recur: it has always been, and legitimately, a concept in flux and under review”.[1]My work in this exhibition (and as discussed throughout this paper) addresses the unstable and revisionist nature of memory—both culturally and individually. Additionally, I attempt to address how memory (collective, visual, familial and individual) is implicated in the creation of selfhood, of personal narrative, …
Tightrope Walking On The Red Lines, Arghavan Khosravi
Tightrope Walking On The Red Lines, Arghavan Khosravi
Masters Theses
My work is deeply connected to my own personal experience of the culture and politics of my homeland of Iran. I was born and raised in Iran in a nonreligious family. I experienced the first decade after the 1979 Islamic Revolution as a child. The hardliners had taken power, society suffered tremendous suppression, and Iran was at war with Iraq. My memories are filled with so many occasions in which the dominance of the oppressive regime affected my daily life, from being forced to wear a headscarf in elementary school, to being required to pray and recite the Quran at …
The Contested Landscapes Of Mnemosyne : Constructing Maps Of Memory, Valeria Rachel Herrera
The Contested Landscapes Of Mnemosyne : Constructing Maps Of Memory, Valeria Rachel Herrera
Masters Theses
This is an unbound portfolio UV printed on plexiglass containing fragments and scenes from my master’s thesis The Contested Landscapes of Mnemosyne - Constructing Maps of Memory.
Circle, Loops, Straps, Tracks, Towels, Laura Thatcher
Circle, Loops, Straps, Tracks, Towels, Laura Thatcher
Masters Theses
When running, thoughts come and go and disappear otten before I can solidify them. I can only really hang onto a few but it's liberating because it allows my mind to leap from one thing to the next by way of lucidity. This brings an experience of felt time or the sensation of time passing. I can slide rhythmically from the haptic to the elusive while passing quickly through places and ambiences.