“Guarding the Past: Memory Securitization and Museum Collections”
2025
(Forthcoming)
20 pp
In this paper, I examine how the concept of memory securitization manifests within and
through a museum's permanent collection. Focusing on the Wende Museum of the Cold
War, I explore how select artifacts and artworks within the collection can reflect,
reinforce, or contest securitized national narratives. I begin by outlining the theoretical
framework of memory securitization, followed by an analysis of specific pieces from the
collection that connect to contentious historical narratives. I trace the evolution of their
display and interpretation, noting changes in curatorial approaches that correspond to
broader societal shifts in how public memory is constructed and maintained. Through
this work, I aim to illustrate the dynamic role museums can play in shaping public
memory, showing how these institutions operate not only as guardians of the past but
as spaces where memory is actively negotiated and reshaped.
“Sculpting in Time: Betweeen Meaning and Information”
2024
Employing an auto-ethnographic perspective, "Sculpting in Time" identifies erosions of semiotic meaning under techno-capitalism and explores the implications of their disappearance for the democratic ideal. The theoretical framework of this doctoral dissertation problematizes linear conception of time and posits that the rethinking of time can be politically emancipatory.
Poetics of Transgression: Ethics of Encounter
2018
Softcover, cerlox bound
13 × 23 × 0.2 cm
52 pp Motto Books Berlin Art Metropole
“Poetics of Transgression: Ethics of Encounter” disentangles the controversies surrounding three contemporary artworks in order to take up the role of discomfort and the practice of transgression in contemporary art. The project argues that although both employ tactics of antagonism, shock, and offense, we can delineate between transgression and mere offense, or trespassing, according to the work’s efficacy in challenging the hegemonic order.