Memory in motion

Soundings from Milltown, Montana

Bibliographic Data

ID3978002
AuthorsCaitlin Desilvey (0000-0003-1629-8414, University of Exeter, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume11
Issue5
Pages491-510
Publication date2010-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14649365.2010.488750
OpenAlexW2079972408
LanguageEN
Citations received32
References cited43

Geographers have begun to investigate the link between creative production and cultural memory-work, exploring how art interventions frame and facilitate engagements with the past in place. This paper builds on this emerging area of enquiry to examine the transformation of an industrial river landscape in Western Montana, and the production of a sound artwork which attempted to respond to the landscape's unmaking with an interactive installation at a local museum. An interest in how cultural remembrance is practised and performed in relation to processes of material disarticulation guides the analysis. In conclusion, the paper proposes that a form of kinetic memory characterises engagement with ephemeral sites and the cultural productions they catalyse. The researcher's involvement in the installation process opens up an adjacent discussion about geographical research conducted on, and through, contemporary art practice

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Collective memory · Cultural landscape · Ephemeral key · Frame (networking · Installation art · Political science · Process (computing · Relation (database · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · Visual arts education · Work (physics · Anthropology · Computer Science · Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Museums and Cultural Heritage

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