'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.
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
publisher
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
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