Collective Amnesia (1991-94)
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Layout Map of Full Installation (Collective memory / Collective Amnesia)
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Installation View with Desk
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Bookshelf (Entrance to Collective Amnesia Installation)
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Bookshelf with Third Reich Approved Books
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Bookshelf with Third Reich Approved Books
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Bookshelf with Third Reich Approved Books
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Bedroom View | Collective Amnesia
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Detail of Bed with Third Reich Forbidden Books
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Detail of Third Reich Forbidden Books
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Detail of Third Reich Forbidden Books
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Detail of Third Reich Forbidden Books
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Detail of Third Reich Forbidden Books
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Anne Frank Wall Box
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Broken Wall Box
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Broken Wall Box Detail
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Collective Amnesia Legend
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Collective Amnesia Wall Boxes
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Detail Burned Wall Box
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Collective Amnesia Legend
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Detail Collective Amnesia Legend
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Detail Collective Amnesia Legend
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Detail | Wall Box at Entrance to Cellar
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Cellar View
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Hallway to Cellar
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Detail | Interior of Wall Box
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Cellar View with Sand Bag
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Cellar | Floor Sculpture
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Collective Amnesia View of Images
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Entrance to the Kitchen
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Detail of Wall Box at Kitchen Entrance
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Collective Amnesia Kitchen
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Collective Amnesia Kitchen
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Collective Amnesia Kitchen | Wall Sculpture
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Collective Amnesia Kitchen | Wall Sculpture
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Collective Amnesia Kitchen
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Collective Amnesia | Living Room
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Detail of Neural Diagram and Text
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Back Room View of Colective Amnesia
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Detail of Broken Chair
“Historical Interventions” show, List Visual Arts Center, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA, 1991 Fontanelle, curated by Christoph Tannert, Berlin, Germany, 1994 Impressions Gallery, York, UK, 1995
Mixed media Installation
Variable
This work concerned the way collective memories are forgotten and enlists the story of Anne Frank to do so. Photographs taken at the Anne Frank Archive in Amsterdam were printed and attached to aluminum boxes in various stages of decay. These were then installed in a reconstructed living room like the one the Frank family hid in during the Second War. The books featured here were books censored at that time that free people were not allowed to read but those in captivity could.