Anna Walker

United Kingdom (residence) °1968
research interests: artistic research, art practice, transdiciplinarity, trauma, memory, culture, affect
affiliation: Plymouth University
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 Anna M Walker, PhD, is an artist, writer and researcher. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. She was awarded an MA in Fine Art from Southampton University in 1998, and a certificate in Psychotherapy from CBPC, Cambridge, in 2010. An interest in the effects of trauma on the body, developed during her work as a psychotherapist, led her to a PhD in Arts and Media at Plymouth University, which she completed in May 2017. She is interested in how the body responds to overwhelming and stressful situations, how it reorganises itself to cope with or manage the traumatic situation. Her research balances the auto-ethnographic with the critical, utilising personal experiences to facilitate a greater understanding of memory, trauma and its wider cultural implications.

 

She is a contributing researcher of Transtechnology Research at Plymouth University.

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  • In and out of memory: exploring the tension when remembering a traumatic event. (2015) author(s): Anna Walker published in: Journal for Artistic Research
    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.
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