This text questions to what extent Gunter Demnig's ongoing Stolpersteine project can be seen as a... more This text questions to what extent Gunter Demnig's ongoing Stolpersteine project can be seen as a form of silent protest against the cultural and political debates of the late 1980s and 1990s surrounding The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. In particular, the premise that a single centralised memorial could ever express collective memory and identity following decades of national trauma.
Emptiness acts as a method of communication in itself; an unorthodox approach to the relaying of ... more Emptiness acts as a method of communication in itself; an unorthodox approach to the relaying of narrative, even by contemporary standards. The spaces entirely represent the history of Jews in Europe: ruptured, dark, disorienting, but ultimately continuing.
This text questions to what extent Gunter Demnig's ongoing Stolpersteine project can be seen as a... more This text questions to what extent Gunter Demnig's ongoing Stolpersteine project can be seen as a form of silent protest against the cultural and political debates of the late 1980s and 1990s surrounding The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. In particular, the premise that a single centralised memorial could ever express collective memory and identity following decades of national trauma.
Emptiness acts as a method of communication in itself; an unorthodox approach to the relaying of ... more Emptiness acts as a method of communication in itself; an unorthodox approach to the relaying of narrative, even by contemporary standards. The spaces entirely represent the history of Jews in Europe: ruptured, dark, disorienting, but ultimately continuing.
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