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Subject: SPECTRE Digest, Vol 82, Issue 19
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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:16:54 +0100
From: Inke Arns <inke.arns la snafu.de>
Subject: [spectre] Building Memory: four films about architecture,
monuments, and community


http://buildingmemory.net/


BUILDING MEMORY: four films about architecture, monuments, and community
Miroslaw Balka (PL), Yael Bartana (IL/NL), Deimantas Narkevicius
(LT), Marcel Odenbach (DE)

Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius
December 11, 2009 – February 14, 2010


The Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius is excited to launch the
exhibition Building Memory that is responsible for commissioning new
moving image works from four of Europe's most renowned artists. The
project is a collaboration between the CAC, Vilnius (Lithuania);
Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund (Germany); Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz
(Poland); Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya (Israel); and
the Goethe Institut, Warsaw (Poland).

The artworks in Building Memory explore different aspects of 60 years
of Europe's most problematic and contested history from a focus on
architecture, monuments, and community and geo-political perspectives
in Poland, the former-DDR (East Germany), and with reference to the
foundation of the state ofIsrael. Three of the works are haunted by
the specter of the Holocaust and all of them are conceptually sited
within post-communist space – so are especially relevant to current
cultural debates in Lithuania. (And will be equally engaging and
discursive when exhibited at the partner institutions inGermany,
Poland, and Israel).

Much has been written in the field of the comparative social sciences
and humanities about the competing narratives of historical trauma –
and the dialectical compass assessing human tragedies animated by
Nazism and Soviet Stalinism plus a range of Imperialist and
colonialist projects in a host of territories (from Africa, to
America, to Ireland, to the Levant). The four works in Building
Memory touch on aspects of these debates and furnish their audiences
with human – in some instances positive, humorous, and ironical –
dramas on the theme that allow for personal reminiscence and
reflections.

Acknowledging the personal and individuated dimensions of larger, and
collective, history is an important characteristic of contemporary
art and one of the ways that it can contribute to what is often
called "memory work". This exhibition hopes to make an important
contribution to this process and lend a perspective to the unraveling
of memory associated with this psycho-geographical territory in the
future.

In addition to the exhibition partners the artists' works have been
generously assisted by a number of leading institutions. Yael
Bartana's Wall and Tower(2009) received support from Muzeum Sztuki
Nowoczesnej (MSN) Warsaw and the Museum of the History of the Polish
Jews (Warsaw). And Deimantas Narkevicius' Into the Unknown (2009) is
a commission by the British Film Institute (BFI), London, and the
Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) Dortmund – and was first screened
at the BFI Southbank Gallery in September.

The Building Memory curatorium is made-up of: Inke Arns, Dortmund;
Elisabetta Fabrizi, London; Maria Morzuch and Jarosław Suchan, Lodz;
Marcel Odenbach, Cologne; Simon Rees, Vilnius; Diana Shoef, Herzliya;
and Martin Waelde, Warsaw

The exhibition will travel to the partner institutions throughout
2010 and will be accompanied by a scholarly publication to be
published in May 2010.

More details about the artists, artworks, exhibition, special
screening events, and tour dates can be found at the special project
website:

http://buildingmemory.net


Contemporary Art Centre
Vokieciu 2, LT - 01130, Vilnius
tel: +3705 2121954, fax: +3705 2623954
email: info la cac.lt // http://www.cac.lt



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