Ruins, rhizomes, palimpsests, and traces-mémoires: Guadeloupe’s Mémorial ACTe and the art(s) of representation

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 415-438
Author(s):  
Renée Gosson
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Sugar Factory ◽  
Memory Traces ◽  
Racialized Violence ◽  
Factory Site ◽  
Temporary Exhibitions

This study examines the degree to which the world’s largest slavery memorial and arts center enacts emerging theorizations of postcolonial memory to connect the Caribbean’s colonial history to legacies of human exploitation both transnationally and transtemporally. Situated literally on top of the former Darboussier sugar factory site, the Mémorial ACTe is a lieu de mémoire that invites a palimpsestic approach to its symbolic location, architecture, and museography. Through a consideration of contemporary art, first in the ephemeral occupation by artists of the Darboussier ruins pre-demolition and then in the MACTe’s permanent and temporary exhibitions, we argue that artists are not only uniquely positioned to preserve the memory traces of lesser-known histories, but that their work is particularly adept at articulating interconnections between various moments of racialized violence.

scholarly journals Zaha Hadid’s Center for Contemporary Art and the perils of new museum architecture

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 210-224
Author(s):  
Elizabeth M. Merrill
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Public Forum ◽  
Museum Architecture ◽  
Art And Culture ◽  
Frank Gehry ◽  
Daniel Libeskind ◽  
Temporary Exhibitions

As epitomised in the works of Renzo Piano, Frank Gehry, and Daniel Libeskind, the ‘new museum’ of art claims its own architectural typology. With asymmetrical silhouettes, gallery spaces that eschew the much derided ‘white cube’, and cleverly conceived circulation systems, the new museum has been heralded as revolutionising the display of art. Yet its function extends beyond the display and conservation of art. The new art museum is conceived as a multifaceted cultural centre – a public forum – where art and culture are democratised, and families, scholars, students, tourists, and teachers come together. At the same time, the new museum competes with other entertainment venues on a commercial level. As a cultural factory replete with an ambitious programme of temporary exhibitions, media facilities, restaurants, and shops, the new museum emphasises consumption as much as it does contemplation. In fact, the array of non-artrelated diversions contained in the new museum is often more important to the institution’s success than the art itself.

scholarly journals Notas para uma arqueologia das exposições no Brasil

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (35) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vinicius Spricigo
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Art Museums ◽  
Brazilian Art ◽  
Temporary Exhibitions

O artigo discute o contexto para uma arqueologia das exposições, tendo como referência a situação dos museus no Brasil, a última edição da mostra Panorama da Arte Brasileira e a monumental e polêmica Mostra do Redescobrimento.Palavras-chave: Museus de arte. Exposições. Curadoria. Gestão Cultural.Notes for a archeology of exhibitions in BrazilAbstractThis article is about the context for an archaeology of exhibitions in Brazilian Art Museums. It adresses temporary exhibitions such as the last editions of Panorama da Arte Brasileira, 30 x Bienal e Mostra do Redescobrimento. Keywords: Art Museums. Exhibitions. Curating Contemporary Art. 

The Novel and the End of Empire

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John McLeod
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Memory Traces ◽  
British Rule ◽  
British Fiction ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
The Impact

This chapter argues that the end of empire is not entirely lacking in mid-twentieth-century British fiction. While established writers tied exclusively to the British Isles may not have prioritized empire and decolonization in their work, colonial concerns might be detected obliquely in the ‘memory-traces’ of former histories. They can also be seen in metaphors of decline, crisis, disorder, and identity (of race, of nation) which are rhetorically linked to larger public debates about the end of empire. Cushioned by the transition from empire to Commonwealth and lacking a clear cultural or critical articulation of the impact of British rule abroad, many Britons have yet to work through the grim details of imperial and colonial history. Nor have they been able to transform paralyzing guilt into a more productive shame that would be conducive to the building of a multicultural nationality.

Archive, Mediation, and Reflections on Colonization in Modern Asia

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-133
Author(s):  
Tang Hongfeng
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Close Connection ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Media ◽  
Artistic Works

This paper will use the artworks and exhibitions of Cai Yingqian, Chen Min, Timoteus Anggawan Kusno, and Chen Chieh-jen to discuss how contemporary art reflects on modern colonial history through mediations. By employing ready-made media materials handed down through history, archival art moves from medium to mediation, mediating between subjects, media materials, and artistic works, and at the same time highlights the materiality and mediality of media, forming a historical picture where media and the message, objects and narrations, images and the deceased together form a unified entity. While the narrative and memory of history rely on media, mediation can summon the memory of the past. Artists can activate images and turn them into an “afterlife” to open sealed historical spacetime, resurrecting the forgotten experience of modern colonial history in Asia, and finally inciting us to face the colonial structure, which is nowadays still at the core of Asian geopolitics. Ultimately, every kind of mediation reverts back to the media itself. The construction of the archive, the production of knowledge, and the opacity of media are revealed by the close connection between colonialism and mediation.

What face familiarity feelings say about the lateralization of specific entities within the core system

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guido Gainotti
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Lobe ◽  
Memory System ◽  
Core System ◽  
The Core ◽  
Memory Traces ◽  
Specific Memory ◽  
Target Article ◽  
Temporal Structures ◽  
The Right

Abstract The target article carefully describes the memory system, centered on the temporal lobe that builds specific memory traces. It does not, however, mention the laterality effects that exist within this system. This commentary briefly surveys evidence showing that clear asymmetries exist within the temporal lobe structures subserving the core system and that the right temporal structures mainly underpin face familiarity feelings.

Retrieval from Memory or Procedural Strategies for Addition Problems

2011 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muriel Fanget ◽  
Catherine Thevenot ◽  
Caroline Castel ◽  
Michel Fayol
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Times ◽  
Long Term Memory ◽  
Verbal Reports ◽  
Term Memory ◽  
Simple Addition ◽  
Memory Traces ◽  
Addition Problem ◽  
Retrieval From Memory ◽  
Calculation Procedures

In this study, we used a paradigm recently developed ( Thevenot, Fanget, & Fayol, 2007 ) to determine whether 10-year-old children solve simple addition problems by retrieval of the answer from long-term memory or by calculation procedures. Our paradigm is unique in that it does not rely on reaction times or verbal reports, which are known to potentially bias the results, especially in children. Rather, it takes advantage of the fact that calculation procedures degrade the memory traces of the operands, so that it is more difficult to recognize them when they have been involved in the solution of an addition problem by calculation rather than by retrieval. The present study sharpens the current conclusions in the literature and shows that, when the sum of addition problems is up to 10, children mainly use retrieval, but when it is greater than 10, they mainly use calculation procedures.

Articulatory Rehearsal Is More Than Refreshing Memory Traces

2013 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryoji Nishiyama ◽  
Jun Ukita
Keyword(s):  
Free Recall ◽  
Recall Performance ◽  
Verbal Working Memory ◽  
Verbal Information ◽  
Free Recall Task ◽  
Study Item ◽  
Phonological Representations ◽  
Memory Traces ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Serial Position Curves

This study examined whether additional articulatory rehearsal induced temporary durability of phonological representations, using a 10-s delayed nonword free recall task. Three experiments demonstrated that cumulative rehearsal between the offset of the last study item and the start of the filled delay (Experiments 1 and 3) and a fixed rehearsal of the immediate item during the subsequent interstimulus interval (Experiments 2 and 3) improved free recall performance. These results suggest that an additional rehearsal helps to stabilize phonological representations for a short period. Furthermore, the analyses of serial position curves suggested that the frequency of the articulation affected the durability of the phonological representation. The significance of these findings as clues of the mechanism maintaining verbal information (i.e., verbal working memory) is discussed.

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