The Texture of Identity , by Silvina Der-Meguerditchian silvina-der-meguerditchian . de /
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Wangechi Mutu , Kara Walker , to name just a few examples .
I ’ ve thought about stateless memory , more specifically , in response to the current global refugee crisis and the increasingly impermeable borders of nation-states . Building on Hannah Arendt ’ s reflections on statelessness during and after the Second World War , I ’ ve spoken and written about stateless memory , specifically , because I see memory studies as a fruitful site in which to think beyond the bounds of citizenship as delimited by the nationstate . I do this again in dialogue with artists who show us how we think of statelessness not just as a condition of victimhood and abjection . Even as we know that stateless people are subject to nationstates for rights , we can still attempt to imagine ways of being in the liminal interstices between and beyond national borders . I see stateless memory as a pause or suspension in both the aspiration to citizenship and in the performance of mobility and migration , whether chosen or imposed . In the pause that is statelessness , I hope to allow for the imagining of alternative potential relationships between contemporary subjects and citizenship , national belonging , and home .
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Ser testigo , by Mirta Kupferminc I mirtakupferminc . net
Objects that tell stories , by Silvina Der-Meguerditchian ( To Mnemosyne ’ s Health !, Berlin 2015 ) I silvina-der-meguerditchian . de
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