About Jessie Kuo's Guest Lecture
With a focusing of Taiwanese art scenes, this session aims to discuss the meaning and aesthetics of visual cultures when revisiting the time and place in memory. Using the traumatic “228 incident" in Taiwan as the main example, a variety of visual practices will be observed and discussed, including film clips, artworks presented at the “228 Commemorative Exhibition”, as well as related commercial works like comics and illustrations. For further discussion and comparison, Alain Resnais’ Hiroshima mon amour will also be shown as a classic example when it comes to trauma and memory via film presentations.
To go further : - Yih-Jye Hwang, Leiden University, "The 2004 Hand-in-Hand Rally in Taiwan: Traumatic Memory, Commemoration and Identity Formation." - Susannah Radstone, "Cinema and Memory." |