How will we know what to remember?

• Catherine will speak about her graphic novel and drawing practice,which she uses to explore the interweaving of time, space andmemory. In her work she is interested in using visual storytellingand comics as a way to study the other and the unknown, thevisualization of the breakdown of order within a system, and howimages change form over time, with images and identities hauntingmultiple types of production. She will demonstrate how drawingon spirit photography, archive and colonial photography and crimescene photography as raw material is a chance to re-collect theevents and people depicted and place a new remembering onthe material.In times of political and social extremism, nostalgia and the rewritingof history into ideals creates a reality that lacks specificity. Memorybecomes oversimplified, generalised and reduced. Visual storytelling can remind people of the specificity of reality and the importanceof remembering, envisioning and articulating our lives and the livesof others. Through her graphic novels Heart of Darkness, Scandorama,Terminal and Dead Man Walking Catherine will investigate nostalgiaand haunting, revisit eugenic and colonial histories and explorethe use of drawing to remember and memorialise contemporaryvictims of crimes.

Ämnesord

HUMANIORA  -- Konst -- Bildkonst (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Arts -- Visual Arts (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

photography

drawing

race

Narrativa processer

Narrativa processer

Publikations- och innehållstyp

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