CARTOGRAPHIES OF MEMORY: 14TH ISTANBUL BIENNIAL: SALTWATER: A THEORY OF THOUGHT FORMS (2015) AND ABY WARBURG’S MNEMOSYNE ATLAS (1924-1929)
CARTOGRAPHIES OF MEMORY: 14TH ISTANBUL BIENNIAL: SALTWATER: A THEORY OF THOUGHT FORMS (2015) AND ABY WARBURG’S MNEMOSYNE ATLAS (1924-1929)

Summary/Abstract: The question of memory has been a prominent subject of study in contemporary art scene during the last few decades. One can argue that it is important to look at moments when this increased interest was expressed at full. Therefore, I would like to analyze two projects which were produced hundred years apart from each other with different intentions. These are Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas and Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev’s 14th Istanbul Biennale: Saltwater Theory of Thought Forms (2015). Although those projects were constructed in different manners, they share similarities at the structural end. One can argue that both of those projects were constructed around the questions of memory and invisible memory in particular. Furthermore, they raise these questions around the notion of memory in a specific way. In this thesis, I would like to argue that it is the willingness to create a map and how it interacts with the photographic and cinematic ways of communications.

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