Open AccessThe resonating past - Stephen Vitiello’s World Trade Center Recordings as a lieu de mémoire
Author(s) -
Anette Vandsø
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
soundeffects
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1904-500X
DOI - 10.7146/se.v7i2.102925
Subject(s) - world trade center , exhibition , center (category theory) , event (particle physics) , art history , history , visual arts , art , media event , moiré pattern , media studies , sociology , archaeology , computer science , terrorism , chemistry , physics , quantum mechanics , crystallography , computer vision
Although many studies have focussed on the visual and textual media practices surrounding the cultural commemoration of 9/11, few have examined the audio media practices related to the event. As a response to this lack the article is an analysis of Stephen Vitiello’s World Trade Center Recordings: Winds After Hurricane Floyd (1999) as it was installed at the MoMA PS1 memorial exhibition September 11 (2011) which explored the ‘enduring and far-reaching resonance’ of the attacks. The piece is analysed as what Pierre Nora calls a lieu de mémoire, with a specific focus on what we, in line with media archaeologist Wolfgang Ernst, may call the technical ‘chrono-poetical’ folding of time. The aim of the article is to show how Vitiello’s work, due to its media specific archival practices, addresses the events of 9/11.