Cruising Eisenman’s Holocaust Memorial
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11633317 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Valentina Rozas Krause (Diego Portales University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 42 |
| Publication date | 2015-09-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anos 90 (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0104-236X • E-ISSN: 1983-201X |
| Publisher | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (PUBLISHER • BR) |
| DOI | 10.22456/1983-201x.52481 |
| OpenAlex | W2281405885 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 8 |
Profile pictures from gay dating sites of young men posing with the stelae of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews in Europe in Berlin have been subject to an art exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York and a tribute online blog. This paper unveils the meaning of these pictures on this particular site, in an effort to understand why these men chose to portray themselves at the Holocaust Memorial in order to cruise the digital sphere of gay dating websites. In three consecutive sections, the paper asserts that, on the one hand, the conversion of the Holocaust Memorial into a cruising scenario is facilitated by a design that —putting forward autonomy and abstraction— allows and even invites its constant resignification in terms of everyday practices. And, on the other hand, it posits that the images exhibited at the Jewish Museum can be interpreted as a performative memorial which reinscribes sexuality and gender into Holocaust narratives
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Exhibition · Judaism · Literature · Meaning (existential · Narrative · Performative utterance · Queer · Sociology · Subject (documents · The Holocaust · Theology · Tribute · Visual arts · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Computer Science · Gender Studies · History · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy · Psychology · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |