Invitation to Guest Lecture on Wednesday, January 13, 17:15 - 18:45,
SR 34.D2, Attemsgasse 25/DG, 8010 Graz
“Things always come to presence in layers. As soon as we address ourselves to a thing, to this one here, to this other one here, as soon as we undertake to think it or to think thereon, we are dealing with geology.”
(Jean-Luc Nancy, Birth to Presence)
This talk explores the geological logic that undergirded the collecting and preserving of Hiroshima ihin, relics belonging to the dead, and that has been encoded within multiple memorialization practices of the A-bomb and of Hiroshima itself. However, recent photographs of Hiroshima memorial clothing by Ishiuichi Miyako, the first woman to be invited to photograph the collection, push the limits of the geological demand of Hiroshima representation and memory and allow for reading of “Hiroshima” as neither “wounded city,” city of peace or of memory, but as a living presence unbounded by the strata of periodicity, one that blurs the boundaries between the animate and inanimate worlds, the living and the dead, clothing, skin, and stone.
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