Talk
Marion Hohlfeldt: “Remembrance and Aftermaths: collecting memories and collective memory in the (public work) of Jochen Gerz”
Open lecture with Marion Hohlfeldt focusing on how artists are dealing with social memory when it comes to questioning public monuments such as Thomas Hirschhorn and Jochen Gerz artinternational.
Marion Hohlfeldt, Lecturer in art history at the University of Rennes 2, France. Director of the campus galerie Art & Essai, she curated a number of exhibitions on public space. Scientific director of an international interdisciplinary seminar on intrusion as art form (label CNRS), she has published (with Pasacele Borre) Paraiste(s) – Une stratégie de creation, L´Harmattan, Paris 2010. Scientific director of the international interdisciplinaire conference Faire la Cité. Création et gouvernance des imaginaires urbains, 2012, she currently prepares its publication (La letter volée, Bruxelles). Amongst her recent publications on public space: “This is tomorrow. Off-Centred figures: Detroit, le lost Dream of modernity”, in Suspended Spaces #2, 2012, and “Un art de l´exposition. 2-3 Rue de Jochen Gerz”, in Place Publique, November 2012.