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Loss and return: Exploring collective memory in an Irish family archive 1950 - 1966 through installation art practice
This study examines how personal, autobiographical memories offer potential meaning
for a wider audience. Through interrogating a set of cultural, familial artefacts, I explore
how memory and forgetting are intrinsically linked to our identity, subjectivity and sense
of belonging. I engage with recent, theoretical reconsiderations of the archive that claim
that, far from being a site of certainty,…
Contributors
- Dr. Margaret Fitzgibbon
Creator
- Dr. Margaret Fitzgibbon
Subject
- Autobiography in art
- Memory
- Family
- Emigration and immigration
- Ethnographic films
- Photography
- Oral history
- Art
- Installation
- Ireland
- Autobiography in art
- Memory
- Family
- Emigration and immigration
- Ethnographic films
- Photography
- Oral history
- Art
- Installation
- Ireland
Type of item
- Ph.D. Thesis
- Text
Date
- 2013
Contributors
- Dr. Margaret Fitzgibbon
Creator
- Dr. Margaret Fitzgibbon
Subject
- Autobiography in art
- Memory
- Family
- Emigration and immigration
- Ethnographic films
- Photography
- Oral history
- Art
- Installation
- Ireland
- Autobiography in art
- Memory
- Family
- Emigration and immigration
- Ethnographic films
- Photography
- Oral history
- Art
- Installation
- Ireland
Type of item
- Ph.D. Thesis
- Text
Date
- 2013
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Rights
- All rights reserved
Issue date
- 2019
Place-Time
- 1950-1960
Identifier
- #ms366v39r
Format
- text
Language
- English
- eng
Providing country
- Ireland
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-10-30T14:35:38.272Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2020-10-30T14:35:38.272Z