Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain
In the framework of Exploring the In-Between Lecture series 2022/2023 :
A lecture by Dr. Colin Sterling, Assistant Professor of Memory and Museums, University of Amsterdam, hosted by Charles Rouleau (Casino Display)
Spectres, ghosts and phantoms have occupied a central place in artistic practice for some time now. Critical engagements with memory and history routinely evoke the haunted qualities of contemporary life to document the lingering effects of – for example – colonialism, conflict and trauma.
At the same time, heritage practice is often accused of 'exorcising' ghosts in pursuit of a clichéd view of the past. This talk will investigate some of the different ways in which heritage and the arts might reckon with the in-between worlds of the ghostly and the spectral in pursuit of more just futures. - Further information