MUSEUM VAN LOON:
Asian artists respond to a museum's 'Suspended Histories'
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
History seems to be always tinted with the vision of the writer or documenter, the power holders and the spirit of the time. Goenawan Mohamad in his keynote at a seminar on suspended histories last year in Amsterdam, suggested that "a good historian is like an origami artist. He builds a structure from what is ephemeral. Memories, like a piece of paper, easily flies away. And like a piece of paper it changes from time to time with you". Indeed, as
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