{"id":3507,"date":"2021-03-11T14:27:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T19:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/?p=3507"},"modified":"2021-03-11T14:33:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T19:33:04","slug":"2021-icslac-talks-lecture-terribly-close-polish-vernacular-artists-face-the-holocaust-with-dr-erica-lehrer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/2021\/2021-icslac-talks-lecture-terribly-close-polish-vernacular-artists-face-the-holocaust-with-dr-erica-lehrer\/","title":{"rendered":"2021\u00a0ICSLAC talks\u00a0Lecture: “Terribly Close: Polish Vernacular Artists Face the Holocaust” with Dr. Erica Lehrer"},"content":{"rendered":"

ICSLAC Talks is an intellectual forum which brings together faculty and students from across campus with high-level visitors to work collaboratively on ideas that matter in Cultural Theory, Memory Studies, Indigenous Studies, Digital Culture, Museum Studies, Gender and Sexuality studies, and Transnational Studies. Past speakers have included Shu-mei Shih, Fran\u00e7oise Lionnet, Terry Smith, Kobena Mercer, Jolene Rickard, and Homi Bhabha.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>2021\u00a0ICSLAC talks<\/em>\u00a0Lecture
\n\u201cTerribly Close: Polish Vernacular Artists Face the Holocaust\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Erica Lehrer<\/strong>, Professor in the Departments of History and Sociology-Anthropology, Concordia University<\/p>\n

Tuesday March 16, 6:00 pm (Zoom lecture)<\/p>\n

Register by March 15<\/a>\u00a0using your Carleton email address. A confirmation email will detail information about joining the lecture.\u00a0Please note: attendees without a Zoom account will need to use the link in the confirmation email.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture<\/a>\u00a0(ICSLAC) at Carleton University is delighted to announce that the 2021\u00a0ICSLAC talks<\/em><\/a>\u00a0lecture will be delivered by Dr. Erica Lehrer from Concordia University. Entitled\u00a0\u201cTerribly Close: Polish Vernacular Artists Face the Holocaust\u201d,\u00a0Professor Lehrer\u2019s lecture investigates whether\u00a0inanimate objects can store and communicate traumatic memory that cannot be directly expressed. Her talk focuses on \u2018folk art\u2019 made by non-professional Polish artists \u2013 many of them village laborers \u2013 documenting the German Nazi occupation of Poland and the Holocaust. Made largely in the 1960s and 70s, these objects are uncanny: at times deeply moving, at others grotesque, they can also be disturbing for the ways they impose Catholic idioms on Jewish suffering, or upend accepted roles of victim, perpetrator, and bystander.<\/p>\n

Dr. Lehrer introduces forgotten works by some of Poland\u2019s best known \u201cfolk\u201d artists from the postwar socialist People\u2019s Republic of Poland, recently re-discovered in Polish and German ethnographic museums and private collections.\u00a0Never before treated as a genre, these objects are complex artworks born of various impulses: their creators were artists, but also collectors, ethnographers, curators, and ideologues. The oldest example is a painting from ca. 1948 by S\u0142awomir Kosiniak from Zalipie, a village famous for its decorative\u00a0floral motifs. Recently discovered in the archives of the Krak\u00f3w Ethnographic Museum, it presents the round-up of local Jews. The most recent work is Jedwabne by Jan Kowalczyk, commissioned by a German collector in 2017. These \u201cawkward objects,\u201d which fall outside the accepted visual language of Holocaust representation, provoke profound reactions in viewers, and raise complex questions about the relationship between art and traumatic memory.<\/p>\n

Dr. Erica Lehrer<\/strong>\u00a0is a sociocultural anthropologist and curator. She is a Professor in the departments of History and Sociology-Anthropology at Concordia University, Montreal, where she also is Founding Director of the\u00a0Curating and Public Scholarship Lab<\/a>\u00a0(CaPSL). She is the author of\u00a0Jewish Poland Revisited: Heritage Tourism in Unquiet Places<\/em>\u00a0(2013); and co-editor of\u00a0Curatorial Dreams: Critics Imagine Exhibitions<\/em>\u00a0(2016);\u00a0Jewish Space in\u00a0Contemporary Poland<\/em>\u00a0(2015); and\u00a0Curating Difficult Knowledge: Violent Pasts in Public\u00a0Places<\/em>\u00a0(2011), as well as publishing\u00a0numerous articles<\/a>. In 2013 she curated the exhibit\u00a0Souvenir, Talisman<\/em>, Toy at the Krak\u00f3w Ethnographic Museum (MEK) in Poland, and in 2014 published the accompanying book\u00a0Lucky Jews\u00a0<\/em>and the online exhibit\u00a0www.luckyjews.com.<\/a>\u00a0She is currently at work on the collaborative project Awkward Objects of Genocide, which resulted in the exhibition\u00a0Terribly Close: Polish Vernacular Artists\u00a0Face the Holocaust\u00a0<\/a>at MEK in 2018-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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