Let Them Haunt Us: How Contemporary Aesthetics Challenge Trauma as the Unrepresentable

Let Them Haunt Us analyzes contemporary aesthetics engaged in trauma and critically challenges its canonical status as unrepresentable . Focusing on case studies in the aesthetic practices of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, Omer Fast, Forensic Architecture, and Paul McCarthy this book proposes to redefine trauma as a productive framework to exploring individual, collective, and cultural conflicts addressed in current artistic and curatorial practices. Anna-Lena Werner considers the aesthetic realm as a potential forum that provides methods of understanding the humanitarian consequences of violence and warfare, and to reveal the effects of trauma on visual culture, collective memory, and politics.

Author: Anna-Lena Werner
Publisher: Transcript Publishing
Published: 05/27/2020
Pages: 260
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d
ISBN13: 9783837650464
ISBN10: 3837650464
BISAC Categories:
- Art | Criticism & Theory
- Performing Arts | Theater | History & Criticism

About the Author
Anna-Lena Werner, born in 1985, is a researcher and curator of contemporary aesthetic practices. She received her PhD from Freie Universität Berlin in 2019, where she is a staff member at the Institute for Theatre Studies. She worked as research associate for inter-institutional projects with Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin (2013-16), Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin. Since 2011, she has been editing the online magazine artfridge.de.