Archaeological fever

Situating participatory art in the rubble of the Warsaw ghetto

Bibliographic Data

ID12904344
AuthorsMaria Magdalena Dembek (corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume26
Issue2
Pages198-220
Publication date2019-03-04
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHolocaust Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1750-4902 • E-ISSN: 2048-4887
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17504902.2019.1578458
OpenAlexW2920953478
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited18

The essay critically examines the participatory excavation project The Cut (2015) performed in the former ghetto area of Warsaw in relation to the artists-in-residence program administered by POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. By investigating the spatial, social and historical framing of the artistic intervention and the discourses it mobilizes, the author contests the underlying presumption that participatory art inherently produces democratic and positive social and spatial relations. The author argues that unaddressed socio-historical contexts of Polish-Jewish relations in such art genres may lead to re-production of the oppressive patterns of culture that include exclusion and appropriation

Aesthetics · Appropriation · Archaeology · Art · Citizen journalism · Epistemology · Framing (construction · Political science · Sociology · Central European Literary Studies · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies

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