How does a society commemorate a war for which the central narrative is one of division and dissent, a war whose history is highly contested and still in the process of being made? 2008: Jane Hammond’s Fallen

26th May 2020UncategorizedAmanda Potter, Jane Hammond, the gallery B sideMinus Plato

The day after Memorial Day, twelve years ago tomorrow in 2008, the then Wexner Center educator Amanda Potter (now Curator of Education and Interpretation at the Zimmerli Art Museum) delivered a talk on Jane Hammond’s gallery B installation Fallen. At the talk, Potter spoke of how Hammond’s nationally touring installation featuring a large field of […]