'This notebook combines photographs by artist Emily Jacir with a text by political philosopher Susan Buck-Morss, who teaches at the City University of New York, written in response to the images and to conversations with the artist. Jacir’s photographs depict the former Benedictine monastery of Breitenau, near Kassel. A prison camp in the Nazi era, it became a girl’s reformatory after World War II. These images as well as other photographs taken in Kassel are accompanied by selections from the artist’s diary entries, which investigate questions around the histories of the represented sites. Recalling Walter Benjamin’s reading of Paul Klee’s Angelus Novus, Buck-Morss’ textual response unravels how truth and collective memory are established and how the inextricable relation between knowledge and power leads to the selection of what is archived and remembered.' - from the Documenta (13) website

Part of a series of notebooks, 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts, published as a prelude to the dOCUMENTA (13) exhibition in 2012, comprising facsimiles of existing notebooks, commissioned essays, collaborations, and conversations.
Alternative title

100 Notes - 100 Thoughts / 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken

Access level

Onsite

artist
Location code
MON.JAE
Language

English

Publication/Creation date

2011

No of pages

48

ISBN / ISSN

9783775728539

No of copies

1

Content type

artist book, 

artist monograph

Chapter headings

The Gift of the Past - Susan BUCK-MORSS

N°004: Emily Jacir & Susan Buck-Morss
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N°004: Emily Jacir & Susan Buck-Morss