This lecture by Griselda Pollock follows on from her notebook about the artist Charlotte Salomon that was published as No. 028 of the dOCUMENTA (13) series “100 Notes – 100 Thoughts.” Exploring the theme of namelessness and self-naming in Salomon's single project, the series of paintings Leben? oder Theater?, Pollock offers a radically new, non-autobiographical interpretation of an artist’s oeuvre by means of a series of imaginary encounters with major thinkers such as Hannah Arendt, Sigmund Freud, and Walter Benjamin, as well as several twentieth-century artists including Irma Stern and Frida Kahlo.
This Keynote Lecture is supported by the Universität Kassel.
