Daily Archives: August 18, 2010

Aesthetics, Responsibility, and Resistance: artmaking at the site of atrocity

August 18, 2010

What is the implication of constructing an aesthetic encounter with genocide? The still-palpable vitality of these phantomed spaces is a testimony to how large a shadow can be cast by mass murder. The dark shadows stretch on and on, but only because there is such tremendous light being shined against the walls.


BumbleMoth

BumbleMoth (image by Paetrick Schmidt)