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| Who's Who in Central & East Europe 1933
The Complete Hypertext, 1996
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| Memory Arena
1995
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Web: http://www.dreyblatt.org/arenaweb/Overview.html
The internet version of the interactive performance installation project, Memory
Arena have been produced in collaboration with the Department of Cultural
Studies of the University of Lüneburg, Germany; Martin Warnke, Director.
Programming and web design by: Beatrix Brandes, Frank Derricks, Christian Hildebrandt,
Eva Johach und Kristina Reichel
“In the twentieth century, it is the bureaucratic apparatus of the state,
with its mechanisms of public surveillance, such as the archive, that bestows
“identity.” The mode of so much recent work is to offer a gesture
of resistance to the bureaucratization of modern society, by attempting to promote
an alternate notion of identity. This often involves a retreat from the public
to the private (to go from the Who’s Who to the interior life of an individual),
to an ethnic or communal heritage (resurrecting a fading tradition), or to the
autobiographical (recovering the past by linking it in some way to one’s
own personal history). Dreyblatt’s project, in contrast, maintains its
edge—and its importance for the rethinking of identity, history, culture,
and memory—by refusing to retreat from or transcend these public, archival
traces.” (Jeffrey Wallen, Preface to “Who’s Who in Central
& East Europe 1933”, Janus Press, Berlin, 1995) |
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