In The Art of Not Being Reduced to Material, historian Astrid Kusser Ferreira refers to a picture postcard from 1912, depicting a Black man standing apart from White guests in the Prater beer garden. Using a speculative method, Kusser Ferreira negotiates the unpredictable rules of ‘the visible’ and ‘the sayable’. Her various hypotheses retrace historical facts and biographical information while using a series of discursive and performative practices to interpret the postcard’s image – not only as material, but first and foremost as a place of memory.
The Art of Not Being Reduced to Material by Astrid Kusser Ferreira is a publication in the ‘Prater Perspektiven’ series.
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