Crystal Bridges Art Symposium: The Unreality of Memory

Crystal Bridges Art Symposium
Art in Conversation: Environment, Identity, and Memory
http://crystalbridges.org/symposium-art-in-conversation/

The Unreality of Memory
With Opening Spoken Word Performance

Moderated by Mindy Besaw, Curator, American Art, Pre-WWII

Panelists:
Erika Doss, art historian
Sandow Birk, artist
Michael Waugh, artist

Collective memory is preserved and perpetuated through texts, visual culture, oral histories, monuments, and more. It shapes our views of the past and of everyday contemporary life, but memory is selective and often biased. Deeper exploration requires us to pause and ask who and what is missing. Art historian Erika Doss will present new scholarship about artists’ use of memory throughout history, which will spark a larger conversation with artists Sandow Birk and Michael Waugh about the role memory plays in art and how it is often at odds with social reality.