In and out of memory: exploring the tension when remembering a traumatic event.

Anna Walker

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The modernist approach to trauma points to an occurrence that demands representation and yet refuses to be represented (Roth 2012: 93); the intensity of the experience makes it difficult to remember and impossible to forget, making any form of recollection inadequate. This exposition explores the repetitive and unresolved notion of trauma using 11 September 2001 as the entry point to navigate a pathway backward into the past and all that was remembered, and uncovers what was forgotten in an effort to lay a traumatic memory to rest. The research began with a journal written on the day of and days following the disaster, which up until a couple of years ago remained closed and unread. Personal remembering is layered upon a well-established collective memory of the event and a vast array of literature, art, and theory written in response to 9/11.

type	research exposition
keywords	trauma, memory, ghosts, Derrida, 9/11, September 11, affect, sound, installation, moving images, autoethnography, writing, journal, Freud, spectre, Twin Towers, body
date	01/01/2015
published	31/08/2015
last modified	31/08/2015
status	published
affiliation	Plymouth University
license	All rights reserved
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/99519/99520
doi	https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.99519
published in	Journal for Artistic Research
portal issue	8.

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