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Space and Landscape in Hearts and Minds: The Interrogation Project – Uncomfortable Proximities

Publication date: 11.12.2017

Arts & Cultural Studies Review, 2017, Issue 3 (33), pp. 350 - 363

https://doi.org/ 10.4467/20843860PK.17.024.7794

Authors

Anne Karhio
National University of Ireland, Galway
University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4884-7529 Orcid
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Space and Landscape in Hearts and Minds: The Interrogation Project – Uncomfortable Proximities

Abstract

This article focuses on the panoramic digital work Hearts and Minds: The Interrogations Project, and examines how it uses immersive audiovisual experience to examine the relationship between narrative memory, space and landscape. It argues that the spatial aesthetic of the work forces the audience members, the artists, and the narrators to interrogate their own conflicted positions in relation to the narratives of military power and torture. Hearts and Minds engages with visual perspective and space, and focalization through individual human voices, to consider agency, victimhood, witnessing and trauma, and does this in a manner that denies its audience a detached position from which to observe the events set in its digitally created environment.

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Information: Arts & Cultural Studies Review, 2017, Issue 3 (33), pp. 350 - 363

Article type: Original article

Titles:

Polish:

Space and Landscape in Hearts and Minds: The Interrogation Project – Uncomfortable Proximities

English:

Space and Landscape in Hearts and Minds: The Interrogation Project – Uncomfortable Proximities

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4884-7529

Anne Karhio
National University of Ireland, Galway
University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4884-7529 Orcid
All publications →

National University of Ireland, Galway

University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Published at: 11.12.2017

Article status: Open

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