Contemporary art versus individual memory

In recent sociological and cultural research, the question of the crisis of memory is raised, which from its boom and spectacular growth has become dangerously out of control. In so far as the problem of collective memory, particularly the collective memory following mass destruction, is willingly analysed in the context of critical arts and post-memory, issues of individual memory occupy a much more modest place in the literary analysis of contemporary art.

In an artist’s works, the artist’s own, personal memory depends on social norms and structures, while simultaneously is the source of the artist’s imagination, expression and creativity. In turn, a piece of art rooted in the collective imagination affects, enriches and creates collective memory and its new schemas.

Session in Polish.