Jan 17, 2021
Jan Rosseel talks about ‘Back-up’ at Stroom Den Haag
In the era of television, world-historical public events penetrate theprivate sphere, bringing ordinary people into intimate contact with events outside their lived experience, perhaps even changing what counts as lived experience.
Prosthetic memories are neither purely individual nor entirely collective but emerge at the interface of individual and collective experience. I call these memories prostheticbecause they are not natural, not the product of lived experience, but are derived from engagement with a mediated representation: a photograph, a film, a televisual newscast.