Expanding Museum Spaces: Networks of Difficult Knowledge at and Beyond the Canadian Museum for Human Rights

Blumer, Nadine

doi:10.1080/10714413.2015.1028831

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“…While these findings may be interpreted as supporting the notion of a “memory fatigue” (Langenbacher and Eigler, 2005), it is crucial to note that there are “multidirectional narratives” (Blumer, 2015), and most LGBT activists we interviewed referred to key expectations. They perceived the memorial as a public site to mark past injustices and celebrate gay pride.…”

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The Berlin Memorial to the Homosexuals Persecuted under the National Socialist Regime: Ambivalent responses to homosexual visibility

Oettler

2019

Memory Studies

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The Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted under the National Socialist Regime, unveiled in Berlin in 2008 at the edge of the Tiergarten park, forms part of an impressive commemorative landscape. It caused considerable controversy from the outset due to its twofold intention of recognizing past repression and creating a symbol against the exclusion of gays and lesbians. The article departs from these debates and describes the polyphonous field of visitor reactions to the memorial. It is based empirically on expert interviews, covert observation, and almost one hundred “express interviews” with visitors. The findings suggest that the relationships between visitors and the memorial are shaped by a pronounced aesthetic attitude. Identity-related visitor reactions center on the video installation inside the memorial, which depicts an endless male-to-male kiss. The article shows how visitors derive meaning from the memorial regardless of the superficiality of their encounters.

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“…1 All these sites create a particular ambience in which different messages encounter each other. They form a “memorial network” (Blumer, 2015: 130), being “productively linked to one another […] through various administrative, pedagogical, touristic and commemorative activities” (Blumer, 2015).…”

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