Transart faculty and advisor, Jean Marie Casbarian in Nonlinear Histories: Transgenerational Memory of Trauma

This April/May, Transart faculty and advisor Jean Marie Casbarian participated in three separate but interconnected exhibitions addressing post-memory, trauma, and the archive.

Nonlinear Histories: Transgenerational Memory of Trauma at ReflectSpace Gallery, Glendale, California -- March 17 – May 6.

Continuity and Rupture – An Armenian Family Odyssey at Brand Gallery, Glendale, California --March 24 – April 27th.

Unleashing at Teacher’s College at Columbia University -- April 1-May 30th

Nonlinear Histories
Transgenerational Memory of Trauma
ReflectSpace Gallery, Glendale, California
March 17 – May 6

“Nonlinear Histories: Transgenerational Memory of Trauma”, co-curated by Ara and Anahid Oshagan and Isin Onol, an exhibition that explores the impossible yet inevitable challenges of addressing the politics of memory of the Armenian Genocide by succeeding second, third and fourth generations. Revolving around the idea of postmemory, a concept developed by renowned literary and cultural critic Marianne Hirsch, Nonlinear Histories probes memories and narratives transmitted in the wake of trauma: the process of the individual and collective ownership of trauma, and the collision of personal, national and cultural memories.