scholarly journals The spectre of the thing: The construction of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Holocaust memorial

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-40
Author(s):  
Martin Kerby ◽  
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Malcom Bywaters ◽  
Margaret Baguley ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
Public Meetings ◽  
Holocaust Memorial ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Gays And Lesbians ◽  
Western Side ◽  
Planning And Construction ◽  
Sydney Australia ◽  
Jewish Museum

The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Holocaust Memorial is situated on the western side of Green Park in Darlinghurst, in Sydney, Australia. Darlinghurst is considered the heart of Sydney's gay and lesbian population, having been the site of demonstrations, public meetings, Gay Fair Days, and the starting point for the AIDS Memorial Candlelight Rally. It is also very close to both the Sydney Jewish Museum and the Jewish War Memorial. The planning and construction of the Memorial between 1991 and 2001 was a process framed by two competing imperatives. Balancing the commemoration of a subset of victims of the Holocaust with a positioning of the event as a universal symbol of the continuing persecution of gays and lesbians was a challenge that came to define the ten year struggle to have the memorial built.

scholarly journals Cruising Eisenman’s Holocaust Memorial

Anos 90 ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (42) ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Rozas Krause
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Art Exhibition ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Holocaust Memorial ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The One ◽  
Holocaust Narratives ◽  
Jewish Museum

Profile pictures from gay dating sites of young men posing with the stelae of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews in Europe in Berlin have been subject to an art exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York and a tribute online blog. This paper unveils the meaning of these pictures on this particular site, in an effort to understand why these men chose to portray themselves at the Holocaust Memorial in order to cruise the digital sphere of gay dating websites. In three consecutive sections, the paper asserts that, on the one hand, the conversion of the Holocaust Memorial into a cruising scenario is facilitated by a design that —putting forward autonomy and abstraction— allows and even invites its constant resignification in terms of everyday practices. And, on the other hand, it posits that the images exhibited at the Jewish Museum can be interpreted as a performative memorial which reinscribes sexuality and gender into Holocaust narratives. 

scholarly journals Arquitectura, dispositivo de experiencia memorial. *** Architecture: a drive of memorial experience .

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilda Azulay Tapiero
Keyword(s):  
Present Communication ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
Holocaust Memorial ◽  
Peter Eisenman ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Daniel Libeskind ◽  
Yad Vashem ◽  
Jewish Museum

La arquitectura puede introducirnos en la experiencia de la memoria; memoria como reflexión, y arquitectura como dispositivo para la experiencia memorial a la vez que contenedor de la información. Cada objeto es definido en un proceso en el que considerar diversos actores, sus voluntades, opciones y experiencias. Es el caso de las obras que aborda este trabajo, en las que evidenciar e interrogarnos sobre el gesto arquitectónico, la memoria evocada y su interpretación social. Obras que han alcanzado notoriedad por diferentes motivos: como la Sala del Recuerdo, de Arieh Elhanani, Arieh Sharon y Benjamin Idelson (1961) en Yad Vashem, Jerusalén; por su significado científico e histórico, como el Museo de Historia del Holocausto, también en Yad Vashem, de Moshé Safdie (2005); por su relevancia cultural o arquitectónica, como el Museo Judío (Ampliación del Museo de Berlín con el Departamento del Museo Judío) de Daniel Libeskind en Berlín (1999); e incluso por la controversia que han suscitado, como el Monumento en Memoria de los Judíos Asesinados de Europa, también en Berlín, conocido como el Monumento del Holocausto, de Peter Eisenman (2004).***Architecture can introduce us to the experience of memory; memory as reflection, and architecture as a drive for the experience of remembering as well as a container of information. Each object is de ned in a process in which different actors, their wills, options and experiences, are taken into account. This is the case of the artworks addressed by the present communication, in which we reveal and ask ourselves about the architectural gesture, the evoked memory and its social interpretation. Artworks that have achieved prominence for different reasons, such as the Hall of Remembrance, of Arieh Elhanani, Arieh Sharon and Benjamin Idelson (1961) in Yad Vashem, Jerusalem; for its scientific and historical significance, such as the Holocaust History Museum, also in Yad Vashem, by Moshe Safdie (2005); for its cultural or architectural relevance, such as the Jewish Museum (Extension of the Berlin Museum with the Department of the Jewish Museum) by Daniel Libeskind in Berlin (1999); and even because of the controversy they have raised, such as the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also in Berlin, known as the Holocaust Memorial, by Peter Eisenman (2004).  

It was horrible, but we live now

Focaal ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (74) ◽  
pp. 97-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa J. Krieg
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Field Study ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Strange Matter ◽  
The Past ◽  
Holocaust Memorial ◽  
Personal Relation ◽  
The Holocaust

Based on an ethnographic field study in a museum and an evening high school in Cologne, this paper discusses experiences of young German adults in everyday encounters with the Holocaust, which are oft en accompanied by feelings of discomfort. Considering the Holocaust as an uncanny, strange matter contributes to understanding that distance and proximity are key factors in creating uncomfortable encounters. Distance from the Holocaust reduces discomfort, but where distance cannot be created, other strategies have to be put to work. This article underlines the significance of experience in an individual’s personal relation to the past for gaining an improved understanding of Holocaust memorial culture in Germany.

Fragments of the Holocaust

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Duindam
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Museum Studies ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
World War ◽  
Holocaust Memory ◽  
Holocaust Memorial ◽  
Memorial Museum ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
A Site

Why do we attach so much value to sites of Holocaust memory, if all we ever encounter are fragments of a past that can never be fully comprehended? David Duindam examines how the Hollandsche Schouwburg, a former theater in Amsterdam used for the registration and deportation of nearly 50,000 Jews, fell into disrepair after World War II before it became the first Holocaust memorial museum of the Netherlands. Fragments of the Holocaust: The Amsterdam Hollandsche Schouwburg as a Site of Memory combines a detailed historical study of the postwar period of this site with a critical analysis of its contemporary presentation by placing it within international debates concerning memory, emotionally fraught heritage and museum studies. A case is made for the continued importance of the Hollandsche Schouwburg and other comparable sites, arguing that these will remain important in the future as indexical fragments where new generations can engage with the memory of the Holocaust on a personal and affective level.

scholarly journals REFLECTION ON COLLECTIVE MEMORY IN THE MUSEUM

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Age Differences ◽  
The United States ◽  
Museum Visitors ◽  
Holocaust Memorial ◽  
Memorial Museum ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Source Of Information

The article describes visitors’ interpretation and understanding of the narrative about the Holocaust in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Visitors comments were the material for the analysis, used methodology was discourse analysis. Different discourses were singled out in visitors’ comments. Differences between visitors’ comments given in different years were ascertained. Age differences and differences among narratives of various groups of the Museum visitors were shown. It can be concluded that the Museum fulfills various functions. Besides being a place of commemoration, it accomplishes its educational function and serves as a source of information about the Holocaust.

Rural Community Planning Research - Taking PingQuan County YangShuLing Town SanZuoDian Community Planning as an Example

2013 ◽  
Vol 357-360 ◽  
pp. 1657-1662
Author(s):  
Yan Fen Zhong ◽  
Huan Qi
Keyword(s):  
Rural Community ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Community Planning ◽  
Traffic System ◽  
The Road ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Full Analysis ◽  
Planning And Construction

Based on the PingQuan County YangShuLing Town SanZuoDian community planning as an example, in the new rural construction planning process, this text discusses planning and construction of the rural community. Based on the specific projects as the starting point, with regional characteristics as the guidance, after a full analysis of characteristic of the project, from the aspect of land layout planning, the road traffic system planning, landscape planning, the text detailed description of the rural community planning.

Professional Services, IBM, and the Holocaust

2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse F. Dillard
Keyword(s):  
Social Systems ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
Instrumental Rationality ◽  
Professional Services ◽  
Nazi Party ◽  
National Socialist ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Administrative Structures

IBM and the Holocaust both represent power, ideology, and rational administration. We view one as logical and commendable, the other as pathological and deplorable, and both as a manifestation of instrumental rationality. IBM and the Holocaust (Black 2001) explores the connect between IBM and its dynamic leader, Thomas J. Watson, and the program of genocide carried out against European Jewry over the 12-year reign of Germany's Third Reich. Those who controlled, applied, and supported IBM's information processing technology are implicated in operationalizing the lethal ideology of the National Socialist German Workers (Nazi) Party. Considering relationships between the fascist and the capitalist extremes provides a starting point in a dialogue that challenges the privileged position of instrumental rationality in evaluating choices related to the development, implementation, and application of information technology. The investigation of IBM and the Holocaust illustrates the potential for technology to reinforce, and be reinforced by, a prevailing ideology through the tangible manifestations of instrumental rationality: machines, professionals, and administrative structures. The ends to which the technology and its manifestations are applied by those implementing and supporting it become lost in striving to efficiently accomplish the immediate, intermediate tasks. The technological manifestations and their complicity in the Holocaust illustrate the inability of instrumental rationality to adequately incorporate the requisite ethical and moral dimensions, a lacuna no less present, though not so obvious, in actions undertaken within the current economic and political spheres by those employing the same tangible manifestations of instrumental rationality. The inability of those most directly implicated to reflexively consider the alliance of technology and ideology assures the continuing propensity of both good and evil. Unfortunately, the social systems that spawned the impressive technological developments do not provide adequate means for discerning and ethically evaluating the destructive and the creative potential.

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