Blue quarantine: archiving collective memory through visual heteroanamnesis

Session

Art and Digital Media

Description

We are witnesses to an unusual experience – the whole world reacting in synchronized mode to the pandemic, coordinating physical, social, and cultural movements. This situation pushed our lifestyles to a different direction, driven by the contemporaneity of events all over the globe. The democratization of technology and its digitization allow the archiving of this period of life being in different media, and from different perspectives. Can the memories of a 3-year-old child be touched and documented, and how legitimate is that? Can someone else’s memories, in this case of a 3-year-old child, be archived and disclosed? Can we count on their approval, while they are unable to do so themself? Is it possible to represent the collective memory of this condition through visual heteroanamnesis? What meaning will visual heteroanamnesis have in the future, and can it be considered cultural heritage? These issues are explored through a series of illustrations - visual heteranamnesis of my son. This paper seeks to present the maternal, social, and artistic commitment, in an attempt to mark this period of time from a child’s perspective, which inevitably leaves room for discourse at several professional levels.

Keywords:

quarantine, archiving, collective memory, visual heteroanamnesis, pandemic, collective memory, cultural heritage, maternal commitment, child’s perspective

Session Chair

Arben Arifi

Session Co-Chair

Gazmend Ejupi

Proceedings Editor

Edmond Hajrizi

ISBN

978-9951-437-96-7

Location

Lipjan, Kosovo

Start Date

31-10-2020 9:00 AM

End Date

31-10-2020 10:30 AM

DOI

10.33107/ubt-ic.2020.52

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Blue quarantine: archiving collective memory through visual heteroanamnesis

Lipjan, Kosovo

We are witnesses to an unusual experience – the whole world reacting in synchronized mode to the pandemic, coordinating physical, social, and cultural movements. This situation pushed our lifestyles to a different direction, driven by the contemporaneity of events all over the globe. The democratization of technology and its digitization allow the archiving of this period of life being in different media, and from different perspectives. Can the memories of a 3-year-old child be touched and documented, and how legitimate is that? Can someone else’s memories, in this case of a 3-year-old child, be archived and disclosed? Can we count on their approval, while they are unable to do so themself? Is it possible to represent the collective memory of this condition through visual heteroanamnesis? What meaning will visual heteroanamnesis have in the future, and can it be considered cultural heritage? These issues are explored through a series of illustrations - visual heteranamnesis of my son. This paper seeks to present the maternal, social, and artistic commitment, in an attempt to mark this period of time from a child’s perspective, which inevitably leaves room for discourse at several professional levels.