W stronę kontr-monumentu. Upamiętnienie „Lublin. Pamięć Zagłady”
Towards a Counter-Monument. The Commemoration of Lublin. Memory of the Holocaust

Summary/Abstract: A description of Tomasz Pietrasiewicz’s commemoration of the Lublin Umschlagplatz. The installation: Nie/Pamięć Miejsca (The Non/Memory of the Place), together with a memory trail, completes and supplements earlier projects proposed by the NN Theatre, which in urban space create a strong symbolic structure supporting and reinforcing the difficult process of restoring the memory, for years ejected, of the Jewish inhabitants of Lublin. A community defines itself through monuments and its reaction towards the past. Commemorations – envisaged as visualizations of group memory – represent the reality of the past, discuss the latter within a social context as the social and individual experiences of contemporary authors, and, first and foremost, do not allow it to vanish from human awareness. The installation: Nie/Pamięc Miejsca additionally constitutes a special site, since it experiments with the form of the message and leads towards a self-aware and self-reflective counter-monument.

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