Circus ÚSTR: Art and Historical Memory in the Public Space
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: March 28, 2024, 19:00 – 21:00
While the 20th century was the “golden age” of the installation and removal of monuments, statues and memorial plaques, as well as the renaming of streets and squares, the present day is characterised by a groping for stagings of historical memory in the public space. In the Czech Republic, this concerns primarily the “culture of remembering" in relation to Communist totalitarianism and Soviet-Russian imperial domination, although it applies in general. What might the presence of memory traces in the public space, produced via culture and art, look like today?
Guests: architect Pavla Melková, sculptor Krištof Kintera and Museum of Roma Culture director Jana Horváthová
Chaired by historian and philosopher Petr Hlaváček, director of the Department of Research and Education at the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes.
The event is part of a series of debates named Circus ÚSTR, with the title referencing the Czech acronym for the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes.