{"id":65,"date":"2018-05-30T10:01:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T10:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogg.sh.se\/memibas\/?p=65"},"modified":"2018-06-26T15:15:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T15:15:21","slug":"65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogg.sh.se\/memibas\/2018\/05\/30\/65\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossing through memory spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It struck me immediately. A boat bursting into the museum, coming to a stop partly outside the room, partly inside the exhibition. An erratic object that captures your attention. It is disturbing, upsetting, offending, at the same attractive, an object on the spot.<\/p>\n<p>The photo of the rowing boat I took is from the permanent exhibition at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hdg.de\/en\/\">Foundation \u2018Haus der Geschichte\u2019<\/a> in Bonn. It depicts a refugee boat, an original, authentic object that physically documents a current challenge in contemporary history. The Foundation \u2018Haus der Geschichte\u2019 is proud of its big and striking key objects which we all know from the media and their remediated images and sounds \u2013 the most recent one is the refugee boat from the island of Malta that was given to the organisers of the exhibition in 2017. Along with several used grubby lifejackets from the island of Lesbos it is on stage and marks the end of the tour which leads you through the history of the second half of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century to the historical events of the early 21<sup>st<\/sup> century. Zygmunt Bauman titled his last essay \u2018Strangers at our door\u2019 in which he mirrored what media often and wrongly call a \u2018refugee crisis\u2019. From a long-dur\u00e9e perspective, we know: The trajectories of flight, expulsion, migration, the experiences by women and men being at the thresholds, partly outside, partly inside, are fundamental constants of history.<\/p>\n<p>The Bonn curators claim that their objects help people \u2018experience history\u2019. They focus on authentic objects which were left behind by the former actors, which now bear the imprint of historical events and developments and which remind museumgoers how we happen to be what we are, individually, as communities as well as societies.<\/p>\n<p>Although our network deals with \u2018media, memory, and migration in the Baltic Sea Region\u2019 the eye-catcher at hand represents several features which are at the centre of our studies \u2013 the interest in migratory processes in the long century of mass-mediated communication up to now, the conviction how important mnemonic processes and their communicative practices have been in societies of immigration, and our focus on a maritime space, a communicatively constructed space called the Baltic Sea Region.<\/p>\n<p>Hans-Ulrich Wagner, June 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It struck me immediately. A boat bursting into the museum, coming to a stop partly outside the room, partly inside the exhibition. An erratic object that captures your attention. It is disturbing, upsetting, offending, at the same attractive, an object on the spot. The photo of the rowing boat I took is from the permanent &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogg.sh.se\/memibas\/2018\/05\/30\/65\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Crossing through memory spaces&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogg.sh.se\/memibas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogg.sh.se\/memibas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogg.sh.se\/memibas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.sh.se\/memibas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.sh.se\/memibas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.sh.se\/memibas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.sh.se\/memibas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogg.sh.se\/memibas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.sh.se\/memibas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.sh.se\/memibas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}