Ep. 56 - Memorials (Collaboration with Hi-Phi Nation)

The Lonely Palette

Arts, Podcast, Art, Museum, Painting, Modern Art, Visual Arts, Art History

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🗓️ 22 December 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

When tragedy strikes an individual, a nation, or an entire people, artists and architects are tasked with designing a public display that memorializes the event and its victims. But how do you do that? In this episode, we explore the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial in DC, the 9/11 Memorial, and others, to look at how respecting and remembering loss collides with the demands of history and politics. Why do abstract, rather than representational, memorials resonate more profoundly in recent years? And no matter how well done they are, will they inevitably lose their impact after a single generation? This episode of The Lonely Palette was produced in collaboration with Slate’s Hi-Phi Nation. Music Used: The Blue Dot Sessions, “Drone Pine,” “Taoudella,” “The Consulate,” “Our Fingers Cold,” “Slider” Silver Maple, “After the Rain” Megan Wofford, “Awake” Yi Nantiro, “Blue Lantern” Christian Nanzell, “Contraband” Gunnar Johnsen, “Documents 4” Fabien Tell, “Liaison” Arden Forest, “Monastral” Niclas Gustavsson, “My Kind of Illusion 1” Niclas Gustavsson, “Reflection 4” Episode webpage: https://bit.ly/3pkhoCI Support the show: www.patreon.com/lonelypalette

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0:00.0	Hi-Fi Nation from Slate.
0:07.0	Hi everyone.
0:08.8	I wanted to share with you an episode that I wrote and produced for the Slate podcast Hi-Fi Nation, which is executive produced
0:15.4	by my friend and former O-G Hub and Spoker, Barry Lamb.
0:19.7	High-Fi Nation is a podcast that makes philosophy accessible through storytelling, the same way that I try to do with art history.
0:27.0	So it seemed only fitting that we should attempt a collaboration.
0:32.0	And the subject that we chose memorials and specifically Holocaust memorials and how and why we remember is one that's particularly meaningful to me, and I hope that as you listen, you
0:46.1	understand why.
0:48.1	So without further ado, this is the Lonely Palat, the podcast that returns Art History to the masses one object at a time.
0:56.3	I'm Tamara Vichai, and this is episode 56 in collaboration with Slate's High-Fi Nation,
1:03.0	memorials. Would you be willing to tell your own story?
1:14.0	Sure.
1:15.0	This is Karen Krollock.
1:16.8	She's a writer and the artistic director for a dance company in Boston.
1:20.8	In August of 2012, my husband and I were in the process of moving and we got a call from the house that we were staying at saying the police have arrived.
1:32.0	They wouldn't talk to me on the phone. They
1:33.8	needed us to come back to the house. After they hung up and said we had to return, I got a
1:39.7	phone call from my now, my only remaining brother. And so I had said the police are at the door,
1:46.4	Michael, what's happened? And he said they're all gone. A driver on the other side of the road had crossed a median strip and hit my
1:58.6	parents car head on and my mother father and older brother Patrick were killed instantaneously.
2:05.0	In moments of shock and trauma and grief it's so helpful to have rituals for how to mourn, how to remember, how to structure
2:18.3	the worst moments of our lives into concrete things to do. That's one of the things that religions do really well, and
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