Abstract
What does art have to say to disaster? In the immediate aftermath, it often seems inconceivable that art could ever be adequate to experience of this kind. And yet, there is a kind of work emerging in contemporary art that reanimates the feeling attached to those events as if they happened yesterday, even as it also complicates that feeling, working with and on it to make possible a kind of reflection about it. It is this process of reflection that provides sufficient distance from feeling to allow what psychoanalysts call a "working through", a processing of trauma that renders it articulable, shareable, and so, to some extent, bearable.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | Sydney, N.S.W. |
| Publisher | Artlink |
| Edition | V. 32 no. 4 |
| Size | 3 pages, colour illustrations |
| Publication status | Published - 2012 |
Keywords
- September 11 terrorist attacks, 2001
- Richardson, Elvis
- The Falling Man
- natural disasters
- social aspects
- art, modern
- Cunningham, Daniel Mudie