Frames of Atrocity: Resistance and Left Melancholy
Public, June 2012, v. 25, no. 49, pp. 8-30
Artist and critics who desire to respond to contemporary violence, trauma and atrocity free of any melancholic attachment to past politics and ideals, a failed or lost campaign or struggle, are placed in a dilemma. The article discussed a list of video/performance that express the melancholy from either trauma, terror, memories and conflicts.
ITEM 2014.020 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Confession – Regina Jose Galindo
All That is Solid Melts into Air – Mark Buolos
Episode 3 – Renzo Martens
We Wish to Inform You That We Didn't Know – Alfred Jaar
Duett – Lars Laumann
Kart&Knut