Mapping Memory - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0620368195 ISBN 13: 9780620368193

Synopsis

In 2006, three curators began to collect the testimonies of the men and women who had been imprisoned at the notorious Old Fort Prison under the apartheid regime. Over time, these former prisoners u many of whom had been held for offences such as not being in possession of their passbooks u found ways to suppress and even erase their memories of the horrors of imprisonment. But with the bold decision to build South Africa's Constitutional Court on the site of the Old Fort, it became imperative to preserve an archive of prisoner experiences in order to 'give material form to memories made fragile by the passage of time'. To begin this process, the three curators, all of whom had a strong connection to the site, began a series of workshops with former prisoners. The men and women participating in the workshop at Constitution Hill began by making photographs of places on the site of the prison that had special significance for them and then exploring the memories associated with these sites through oral testimony and drawing.Mapping memory contains many of the drawings, stories and photographs created by the participants in the workshop and is a wonderful record of this liberating an

Edition details

• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0620368195
• ISBN 13: 9780620368193
• Binding: Paperback