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can find the full symposium program
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This three-day symposium at the University of Arts Linz, Austria, deals with
vernacular and family archives from the 20th century. Throughout three panels and a round table, we present different academic
and artistic research projects that investigate distinct modes of intergenerational and transnational memory transfer. The
archives they deal with are addressed as places of storage, of consignment and visibility, but also of concealment of power
over history, histories and discourse. The different research projects and positions assembled in PASS(ED) ON represent a
broad spectrum of theoretical and practice-based methodologies of examining archives, stemming from cultural sciences, artistic
research and memory studies.
The vernacular and family archives under investigation exist as organic bodies of
collected documents, oral histories and different kinds of memorabilia. These media objects are generally assembled and stored
according to autobiographical and idiosyncratic criteria. The focus of PASS(ED) ON lays upon how to reflect, relate to and
reproduce the collective social processes in which they exist and, at the same time, to see in which ways they transcend them.
By focusing on these archives’ specific operational mechanisms, and by acknowledging them as places for the articulation of
lived and transmitted experience with macro-political and historical dimensions, the interest of this symposium is to inquire
about the way they entangle with institutionalized and cultural memory.
Each panel of PASS(ED) ON – 1.
The
mute archive: Post generational work on violence and perpetration within concealed archives; 2. Migrating memories: Intergenerational
transfer of material narratives in the contexts of migration and 3. Inherited Revolution: Privatization and intergenerational
transfer of narratives of collective upheaval – addresses vernacular archives through different historical and contextual
focal points which bring together diverse methodologies to critically inform us on the different collective processes at stake
and on the routes of their transfers of memory. With the round table
From the attic to the museum: Inscribing vernacular
archives into collective history, we venture into a presentation and discussion of different projects in which vernacular
archives undergo a process of institutionalization and of inscription into historiography and collective history.
PASS(ED) ON is conceived by Ana de Almeida, Lena Ditte Nissen and Elif Süsler-Rohringer as part of their DOC-Team project
“Stay and tell: memory objects and narratives of appropriation. Tracing social change in text, photographs and patterns within
personal archives” which is funded by the
ÖAW
– Austrian Academy of the Sciences. The symposium is generously supported by the University of Arts Linz, by the
Zentrum Fokus Forschung -
University of
Applied Arts Vienna and the
Academy of Fine Arts of Vienna.
Speakers:
Andrea Ancira, Vida Bakondy, Ana de Almeida, Georgia Holz, Berthold Molden, Lena Ditte Nissen, Monika Palmberger, Edward Serotta,
Elif Süsler-Rohringer, Huda Takriti, Marcela Torres Heredia, Markus Wurzer, Mai Ling.
Moderation:
Alison J. Clarke, Karin Harrasser, Gudrun Rath, Mariel Rodríguez Rodríguez
Venue: University of
Arts Linz, Hauptplatz 6, Hörsaal C, 5.OG, 4020 Linz / Austria
