Post-witness, counter-bystander and the (unclaimed) experience
Post-witness, counter-bystander and the (unclaimed) experience
Author(s): Roma SendykaContributor(s): Łukasz Mojsak (Translator)
Subject(s): Cultural history, Visual Arts, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Widok. Fundacja Kultury Wizualnej
Keywords: art; witness; trauma; memory; video; implicated subject; counterpublic witness; Mirosław Bałka
Summary/Abstract: Selected videos by Miroslaw Bałka are discussed within the theoretical frame of witnessing and post-witnessing. The concepts of a bystander, counterpublic witness and implicated subject allow understanding the artist’s standpoint toward Holocaust bystanders in Poland. Localized experience of the past violence is analyzed in the article in relation to trauma theory but trauma is understood here beyond the individual level, as a shared, cultural and social experience.
Journal: Widok. Teorie i Praktyki Kultury Wizualnej
- Issue Year: 2017
- Issue No: 18
- Page Range: 89-102
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English