Can other people's memories become our own?
The descendants of generations that have lived through the great twentieth-century catastrophes, such as war or genocide, often feel that they have been influenced by events that happened long before they were born.
The group will explore Marianne Hirsch’s concept of postmemory and explore new ways of talking about disasters using the graphic novel Mouse as their example, aiming to answer the question of how the media (graphic novels, photo and video blogs) help to speak about difficult events and traumatic memories.
The session is held as a part of series of discussions for teens called Memory and Time which is based around current exhibitions at Garage, focusing on the historical and cultural understanding of time and memory.
Participants will engage in memory studies aiming to find answers to the questions of what memory and history are, how the ways of speaking about memory are changing, what oblivion is needed for, as well as the role of new technology in this context. Each subject will be considered through relevant media practices, including graphic novels, selfies, and TikToks, allowing participants to draw parallels with contemporaneity.