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416_SR1938. The presence of memory in the perceptual experience

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posted on 2024-10-10, 14:31 authored by Elena Cologni

The text will take the reader through the historical and theoretical contexts embedded in the art project 416_SR1938 Places of Memory, conceived in response to the “Memory Pole, San Rossore 1938”. This was developed with the aim to combine the different temporalities involved in processes of memorisation, recollection and fruition the artist has investigated for some 20 years (Cologni 2004, 2009, 2011), here specifically activated through perceptual dynamics involving the role of light and shadows with passing of time (Kanizsa 1955, Geiger & Hishikawa 2009, Vicario 2015). Working on a non-static and un-monumental public art project, is to be connected to other influences for the artist, including the context of ‘ambienti’ (environments, Fontana 1949, Vigo 1964, Clark 1968, Irwin 1973) in previous works and projects (Cologni 1994, 1997, 2013) grounded in experiential, phenomenological, pragmatist approaches, which allow the viewers to have a fully embodied experience of art (James 1890, Merleau-Ponty 62, 68, Parry 2010). 416_SR1938 developed in collaboration with the Jewish Community in Pisa, and inevitably reopens deep wounds, by referring to 416 members of the Jewish community present in Pisa at in 1938, when the racial laws were introduced by Mussolini. The project aims to also act as a fulcrum for dialogue, to indicate shared paths of activation of communicative memory (Assman 2015). The piece on the external facade, extends to the city through a series of interventions (walkshops) still in development, to recall the community in their places, where they lived, worked and raised their children. The place-memory relationship can be institutionalized, as in the case of memorials, and through architecture, but it is often in seemingly anonymous places, experienced through the quotidian bodily actions that the individual's memory grid is built (Paul Connerton 2009). Through the memories that these places evoke, the individual can tame the surrounding world, but also re-emerges as a figure from the background of history.

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Routledge

Title of book

The Architecture of Exhibitions. Experiential Design

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9781032736297

Editors

Melis A

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  • Accepted version

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