"Crystal Wall of Wailing" by Marina Abramovich: Analytical Discussion
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Startsev S.V., Peto A., Veselkova N.V., Abramov R.N., Zaporozhets O.N. "Crystal Wall of Wailing" by Marina Abramovich: Analytical Discussion. Interaction. Interview. Interpretation. 2021. Vol. 13. No. 4. P. 92-113. DOI: https://doi.org/10.19181/inter.2021.13.4.5 (in Russ.).
Abstract
The discussion focuses on the recently opened "Crystal Wailing Wall" at the Babi Yar memorial complex, an art object created by the famous artist Marina Abramovich. The authors from different analytical positions and from different fields demonstrate the rich interpretative resource of the Wall. Describing various aspects of the composition, the participants of the discussion draw attention to the difficulties associated with both the discussion of the Holocaust and forms of its commemorative representation.
Keywords:
visual sociology, Babi Yar, analytical discussion
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Assman A. (2017) Rasspalas’ svyaz’ vremen? Vzlet i padenie temporal’nogo rezhima Moderna [Has the Connection of Time Broken Down? The Rise and Fall of the Modern Temporal Regime]. Мoscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie. (In Russ.)
Auge M. (2017) Ne-mesta. Vvedenie v antropologiu giper-moderna [Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity]. Мoscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie. (In Russ.)
Benyamin V. (2000) Proizvedenie iskusstva v epohu ego technicheskoyi vosproizvodimosty [The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility]. Ozarenie [Insights]. Moscow: Martys. P. 122—152. (In Russ.)
Berdahl D. (1994) Voices at the Wall: Discourses of Self, History and National Identity at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. History and Memory. Vol. 2. No. 6. Р. 88—124.
Doss E. (2008) The Emotional Life of Contemporary Public Memorials: Towards a Theory of Temporary Memorials. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5117/9789089640185
Forest B., Johnson J. (2002) Unraveling the Threads of History: Soviet-Era Monuments and Post-Soviet National Identity in Moscow. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. Vol. 92. No. 3. P. 524—547. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8306.00303
Ghertner D.A. (2015) Rule by Aesthetics. World-Class City Making in Delhi. New York: Oxford University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199385560.001.0001
Grant B. (2001) New Moscow Monuments, or States of Innocence. American Ethnologist. Vol. 28. No. 2. P. 332—362. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/ae.2001.28.2.332
Hass K.A. (1998) Carried to the Wall: American Memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Berkeley: University of California Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520920705
Khlevnyk D. (2019) Pochyvstvovat’ prava cheloveka: affect v muzeyzh pamyati [Feeling Human Rights: Affect in Museums of Memory]. In: Zavadski A., Sklez V., Suverina K. (eds.) Politika affekta: muzey kak prostranstvo publichnoy istorii [The Politics of Affect: The Museum as a Space for Public History]. Мoscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie. P. 106—122. (In Russ.)
Kochergina L., Novikova I. (1971) Boevimi dorogami otctov: opyt raboty 5-i srednit sckoly g. Stavropoliya [The Roads of Fathers in Battle: Experience of Stavropol Secondary School No. 5]. Stavropol: Kn. izd-vo. (In Russ.)
Kolhas R. (2015) Musornoe prostranstvo [Junk Space]. Мoscow: Art Gid. (In Russ.)
Nadkarni M. (2003) The Death of Socialism and the Afterlife of its Monuments: Making and Marketing the Past in Budapest’s Statue Park Museum. In: Hodgkin K., Radstone S. (eds.) Contested Pasts: The Politics of Memory. London: Routledge. P. 195—210. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203391471
Reisner L. (1965) Ugol’, zhelezo i zhivie ludi [Coal, Iron and Living People]. Moscow: Hudozhestvennaya literatura. (In Russ.)
Reynolds D.P. (2018) Postcards from Auschwitz Holocaust Tourism and the Meaning of Remembrance. New York: New York University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvfb6z8d
Rozhdestvenskaya E. (2017) Reprezentatsia kul’turnoy travmi: muzeeficatsia Holokosta [The Representation of Cultural Trauma: The Museification of the Holocaust]. Logos. Vol. 120. No. 5. P. 87—114. (In Russ.) DOI: https://doi.org/10.22394/0869-5377-2017-5-87-111
Schaller D.J. (2007) From the Editors: Genocide Tourism — Educational Value or Voyeurism? Journal of Genocide Research. Vol. 9. No. 4. P. 513—515. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14623520701643210
Theriault K. (2005) Go Away Little Girl: Gender, Race, and Controversy in the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Prospects. Vol. 29. Р. 595—617. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0361233300001873
Ushakin S. (2009) «Nam etoi bol’u dyshat’»? O travme, pamiati i soobshestvah [Do We Breathe This Pain? About Trauma, Memory and Communities]. In: Ushakin S., Trubina E. (eds.) Travma: punkty [Trauma: Points]. Мoscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie. P. 5—45. (In Russ.)
Ushakin S. (2020) Servantiki zastoya: o krasote i polize sovetskogo veshizma [Servant of the Stagnation: About the Beauty and Usefulness of Soviet Stuff]. Eto bylo navsegda [It Was Forever]. Мoscow: Gosudarstvennaya Tret'yakovskaya galereya. P. 75—89. (In Russ.)
Vanke A.V., Polukhina E.V. (2014) Vechniy ogon’ v Alexandrovskom sadu kak publichnoe mesto pamyati [The Eternal Flame in the Alexander Garden as a Public Place of Memory]. Interaktsiya. Interv'yu. Interpretatsiya [Interaction. Interview. Interpretation]. Vol. 6. No. 8. P. 36 —51. (In Russ.)
Zaporozhets O.N., Kolesniyk A.S. (2019) Dolgaya zhizn’ mest Tsoya: geografia pamyati [A Long Life of Tsoi Places: Geography of Memory]. Laboratorium: zhurnal social'nyh issledovanij [Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research]. Vol. 11. No. 2. P. 70—102. (In Russ.) DOI: https://doi.org/10.25285/2078-1938-2019-11-2-70-102
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Received: 17.09.2021
Accepted: 26.12.2021
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Startsev, S. V., Peto, A., Veselkova, N. V., Abramov, R. N., & Zaporozhets, O. N. (2021). "Crystal Wall of Wailing" by Marina Abramovich: Analytical Discussion. Interaction. Interview. Interpretation, 13(4), 92-113. https://doi.org/10.19181/inter.2021.13.4.5
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