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“Lapidary Practice: The Twentieth Century’s First Death Camp, William Kentridge, and the World’s Last Northern White Rhinoceros Male”
April 26, 2019 at 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
| Location: | 1811 Dunton Tower |
| Audience: | Alumni, Anyone, Carleton Community, Current Students, Faculty, Prospective Students, Staff |
| Contact Email: | African Studies |
| Contact Phone: | 6135202600 Ext 2220 |
Speaker: Brian Macaskill (John Carroll University)
Macaskill’s presentation circles and cycles around the insufficiently-known genocide committed against the Herero nation in German Southwest Africa, locus of the first death camp in twentieth-century history. It celebrates the artistic response to that disaster by internationally renowned South African artist William Kentridge, who memorializes the catastrophe in Black Box / Chambre Noire (2005), a beautifully and sympathetically nuanced multimedia reaction to genocidal atrocity. Glimpsing rhinoceri now and then along its also intermedial trajectory (voice, image, music, text, genealogy too), the presentation pauses — with a sidewise glance at the Shoah — over some difficulties confronting memorial commemoration in lapidary practice.
