Book Reading and Discussion: Andrea Goldsmith and Kathy Temin: Monuments, Memorial Sites and Memory

Kathy Temin will discuss the way in which her art practice engages with themes of remembrance, familial history, loss and hope. Temin is the child of Holocaust survivors and as part of her art practice she has made monuments since the mid-1990s. Her installation My Monument (White Forest) 2009 is a white maze-like garden inspired by visits to Eastern European memorial sites.

Goldsmith’s encounter with Temin’s work in 2009 at the Heide Museum of Modern Art inspired both the major theme of The Memory Trap, and a central character named Nina Jameson, an international consultant on memorial projects. Goldsmith says: “I’ve long been fascinated by monuments, by the attempt to render concrete what is essentially abstract”.

In association with the Glen Eira Storytelling Festival 2014

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