Ruins of Modernity presents:

Memory Remains, a Museum of Un-Natural History

Memory Remains, based on the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, is a meditation on history, memory and trauma and their means of representation. It is also a statement about the nature of liminal warfare; something that was not present in the realm of consciousness at the time. However, it is now permeating our current reality as the paradigm of future warfare in which anything can be weaponized and anything can constitute an act of war, with or without violence. In the domain of armed conflict, this erasing of boundaries mimics, paradoxically, Duchamp’s century-old dictum that anything can be art (complemented in the 60’s and 70’s by Joseph Beuys’ proposition that everybody is an artist). Both statements have been haunting us ever since. The avantgarde - as well as contemporary art - and war mirror each other, in the sense that both want to be total and encompass everything outside and beyond any defining boundaries.

Francesc Torres is a Visual Artist and Installation Art pioneer, Exhibition Curator, and Essayist (MoMA, MACBA, Whitney Museum of American Art, International Center of Photography, etc.).

This talk will be in English. Lunch boxes will be served. Attendance is open to the Stanford community with a green badge in Health Check.
 
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Ruins of Modernity is a Research Group in the DLCL Research Unit, organized by Prof. Joan Ramon Resina and Laura Menéndez Gorina. For more information, please contact us: jrresina@stanford.edu or lauramen@stanford.edu

*Image by Francesc Torres