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September 21 — Making The Memory Sacred panel at NYU A/P/A Institute
Excerpts from the Making The Memory Sacred — Art Human Rights and Community panel that took place at NYU’s Asian/Pacific/American Institute during the Asian American Arts Alliance Locating the Sacred […]
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Screening of Hiroshi Sunairi’s “Making Mistakes” and “Tree Project Film” at The Horticultural Society of New York on Sept 25th Tuesday at 6:00pm
“Making Mistakes” and “Tree Project Film” Two Films and a Discussion with Hiroshi Sunairi Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU Sept 25th, 2012, Tuesday at 6:00pm at The Horticultural […]
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Mural of Pain
— Peter Lucas Photographs, being made of paper, are fragile things in this world. In time they inevitably turn yellow, they begin to crack, and fade away into the anonymous […]
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The House of Histories
The House of History is a short documentary made by eight cameramen from Afghan Films, the national film institute of Afghanistan, during the turbulent years of 1993-95. The first ten […]
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Money and Memory
At a moment when money seems the only measure of value, it is vital to open up other means through which we can invest in one another, circulate what we […]
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WHOSE MEMORY HERE?: Response to Steve Zeitlin and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
I read both posts side by side as a dialogue on the meaning of “historical sites with powerful memories and associations.” Both brought me to the question of “whose memory […]
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Steve Zeitlin
As a folklorist, I sometimes speak metaphorically about “cultural capital” and “social currency.” But what if there were an actual currency of memory and meaning? This unit might be called […]
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Hiroshi Sunairi
“Nature tells us with no ideological standpoint about war, atomic bombs, peace, nature, and the environment.” – Dr. Chikara Horiguchi Over sixty years ago, the city of Hiroshima was burnt to […]
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Welcome
MAKING THE MEMORY SACRED: Art, Human Rights and Community A dialogue on art, public space, community and memorialization hopes to foster a comparative global dialogue between participant artists, designers, scholars […]
