Exhibition: De-Placing Future Memory
23 September - 17 October
University of Exeter
Sandi Hilal _ Jonathan Lee _ Hanaa MalAllah _ Shauna McMullan _ Alessandro Petti _ Rashad Salim _ Catrin Webster
IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE IMAGE IN YOUR MIND, I CAN'T HELP YOU WITH THAT.
Path at Flowerpots. Photo by project participant during Artist's Walk along the River Exe, May 2009
Exhibition Opening Times
Monday - Friday 9.00am - 7.00pm (last entry: 6.30pm)
Saturday (10 & 17 October) 11.00am - 4.00pm
Venue
Institute of Arabic & Islamic Studies
Stocker Road
Exeter
EX4 4ND
United Kingdom
For directions see http://huss.exeter.ac.uk/iais/
Text
by participants of De-Placing Future Memory workshop. May 2009
Photograph and text by participants of De-Placing Future Memory workshop. May 2009
What is the strength of the bond between memory & place?
_ Place does not exist without memory
_ We are affected unexpectedly, by landscapes, monuments and objects
What are the effects of such a break?
_ Overwriting through art, building and music
_ Traces cannot be erased, we carry them with us.
How can that bond be broken or weakened?
_ Stories cluster in places
_ Refugees are placeless with collective memory
When is it desirable?
_ Power is to control the memory of a place
_ To live in the completeness of the moment not its memory or ruins
These questions are addressed through a collaboration of academics, visual artists, architects, musicians and other members of our community. The aim of this project is to provide a space to bring together ideas about identity, presence, homeland and mobility, whether theoretical or concerning current urgent events, which crucially depend on our understanding of the nature and quality of the bond between memory and place.
Contact
Elena Isayev
http://projects.beyondtext.ac.uk/deplacingfuturememory/index.php