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Visual Scepticism. Towards an Aesthetic of Doubt

Descripción del proyecto

Modos de escepticismo visual: volver a diseñar el «patrimonio difícil»

Los monumentos conmemorativos relacionados con el colonialismo están en el punto de mira. El movimiento Black Lives Matter de 2020 llamó a eliminar estatuas y monumentos de figuras coloniales. Un debate similar surgió tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial con respecto al «patrimonio difícil» del fascismo. Muchos consideran que la solución frecuente de colocar un panel informativo al lado de los monumentos polémicos resulta insuficiente. El proyecto VISUAL_SCEPTICISM, financiado por el Consejo Europeo de Investigación, propondrá un enfoque diferente. Analizará estudios de caso en que no se han quitado los monumentos, sino que se han transformado estéticamente sin eliminarlos del todo de la memoria histórica. El objetivo del proyecto es examinar estas intervenciones artísticas y explorar el potencial escéptico de los medios visuales en general.

Objetivo

"In early summer 2020, numerous monuments around the world were demolished after the death of George Floyd. The iconoclastic acts raise the pressing question of how this historical legacy should be dealt with. In a publication of the same name, Norbert Huse, a conservator of cultural heritage, spoke of ""uncomfortable monuments"" in this context. Since monuments of fascism and colonialism in particular also express the inhuman ideology of the regimes aesthetically, the frequently chosen solution of placing an information board next to the monument is not convincing, since in this way the effectiveness of this rhetoric in public space remains unchallenged. With the concept of ""visual scepticism"", the project proposes a different approach to these monuments. The monuments are to be aesthetically re-framed without completely erasing them from historical memory.

The project therefore pursues three goals:

Firstly, the concept of ""visual skepticism"" is to be explored to fundamentally examine whether and how visual media are capable of calling themselves into doubt. How do they succeed in generating insight with the help of inner contradictions. The thesis is that this form of knowledge production takes place on a purely visual level. It will be analysed how images can generate inner tensions and operate with dialogical structures that release knowledge.

Secondly, monuments of colonialism will be examined in order to find out how this memory becomes effective for the public not only in terms of content but also aesthetically. This aesthetic appeal to the viewer's experience of space and his or her bodily senses will be analysed in detail.

Thirdly, monuments that have been successfully re-framed will be discussed to show how artistic interventions have found aesthetic answers to inhuman ideologies.
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Ámbito científico (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS clasifica los proyectos con EuroSciVoc, una taxonomía plurilingüe de ámbitos científicos, mediante un proceso semiautomático basado en técnicas de procesamiento del lenguaje natural.

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Régimen de financiación

ERC-ADG - Advanced Grant

Institución de acogida

UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 2 369 431,00
Dirección
MITTELWEG 177
20148 Hamburg
Alemania

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Región
Hamburg Hamburg Hamburg
Tipo de actividad
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Enlaces
Coste total
€ 2 369 431,00

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