Two Minutes of Standstill: A Collective Performance by Yael Bartana

by Stefanie Wenner

Contemporary ideas of history have bid farewell to the concept of one big narration as a hegemonic product that excludes other histories. With regard to the Holocaust this means that individual biographies of victims and testimonies from eyewitnesses form the archival corpus of this history. But using individual testimonies as historical revelation is not enough.

Inspired by the Israeli memorial day Yom HaShoah, the holiday that commemorates...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3956790618
• ISBN13: 9783956790614
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Sternberg Press
• Length: 82 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.3" x 11.1"