Location
Stewart Center 313
Session Number
Session 14: TERRORISM IN GERMAN MEDIA DISCOURSE AND THE VISUAL ARTS
Start Date
9-9-2011 1:30 PM
End Date
9-9-2011 3:00 PM
Abstract
This paper explores strategies and positions in contemporary art that have been at the center of many debates surrounding the 2005 exhibition Regarding Terror: The RAF-Exhibition at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. It discusses artworks that aim to go beyond the criticism of sensationalism, or historicization and glorification of traumatic social events, such as the crimes of the Red Army Faction in Germany. By emphasizing the power of art to transform and change audience members are enabled to shape more individual and nuanced perspectives on some of the forms of terrorism today.
Included in
Regarding Terror: The German Autumn and Contemporary Art
Stewart Center 313
This paper explores strategies and positions in contemporary art that have been at the center of many debates surrounding the 2005 exhibition Regarding Terror: The RAF-Exhibition at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. It discusses artworks that aim to go beyond the criticism of sensationalism, or historicization and glorification of traumatic social events, such as the crimes of the Red Army Faction in Germany. By emphasizing the power of art to transform and change audience members are enabled to shape more individual and nuanced perspectives on some of the forms of terrorism today.
Comments
Keywords: contemporary art, discourse, Gerhard Richter, Joseph Beuys, Hans Haacke, Red Army Faction, Regarding Terror: The RAF-Exhibition, social sculpture, transformation.