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8/2/2012

Marius Stan

Pavilion Unicredit, Bucharest

Memory labels a wide variety of phenomena. You remember how to play GO after many years of idleness. You remember to call your parents when every of their anniversaries. You evoke the maidans where you used to play ball in your boyhood days. You retrace a flavour, a colour, a feeling... you bethink the 1989 events through the medium of certain time and praxis. Nonetheless lots of things happen - as Wittgenstein would assert - when we recollect. As oration of any common narrator used to facing the past, "Memory and Politics of Memory: a Hang Tag" tries to retell to the unforgetting ones how exactly the post-communist Romania has condescended to recollect its recent history in the aforementioned ways: politically and artistically! In other words, to provide answers to at least two fundamental questions: what and how exactly did we manage to politically recall in relation to the communist period? What and how exactly did we manage to artistically recall in relation to the communist period? Thus the political and artistic awakenings of the past as means to a post-communist establishment of some memorial typologies shall be explored. Marius Stan holds a PhD in political sciences from the Faculty of Political Sciences - Bucharest University (with a thesis on the administration of the past in Serbia and the functioning of the ICTY), and currently works as a researcher within the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile wherefrom he has published several articles and other writings on the history of communism in Romania.

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