Category: Artistic Responses

Robert Eaglestone on “Poetry After Auschwitz: Walking in West Cornwall with the Ghost of Great-Aunt Hilde”

Written by Robert Eaglestone
December 12, 2024

Holocaust poetry is hard to write and can horrify for the wrong reasons: the “so-called artistic rendering of the naked physical pain of those who were beaten down by rifle butts contains, however distantly, the … Keep reading

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In Conversation: Louise K Wilson & Paula Kolar

Posted by Paula
October 31, 2024

A conversation with artist Louise K Wilson on working with members of our community for the production of two new tracks for our ‘Encountering Survival’ audio guide. Listen to Encountering Survival here via the browser-based … Keep reading

Letter Writing after the Shoah

Written by Tom Hastings
September 12, 2024

Tom Hastings, Holocaust Centre North’s first writer-in-residence, reflects on a workshop he delivered at the Queer Yeshiva Summer Intensive on 27th August 2024, using materials from the Holocaust Centre North Archive. During my time as … Keep reading

Memorial Gestures 3 – Open Call

Posted by Paula
July 17, 2024

Artist Residency Programme 2024–2025 @ Holocaust Centre NorthApplications close: Tuesday 20th of August – 9am (GMT) Memorial Gestures is a remote residency programme for artistic research supporting artists, writers and translators. Over the course of … Keep reading

Memorial Gestures 2 – Matt Smith

Written by Matt Smith
May 29, 2024

I am an artist who works mainly with craft-based media, often in relation to collections and archives. My practice often explores marginalised, and particularly LGBTQ+ lives and how they have been included or excluded from … Keep reading

Memorial Gestures 2 – Ariane Schick

Written by Ariane Schick
March 26, 2024

Around eighty years after my paternal grandparents and aunt became Holocaust refugees, I began reflecting on this part of my family’s past. In the midst of that, I applied for the Memorial Gestures Residency at … Keep reading

Memorial Gestures 2 – Maud Haya-Baviera

Written by Maud Haya-Baviera
March 8, 2024

I am a multidisciplinary visual artist. For years, I have worked with a variety of different mediums, ranging from film and video, sculpture, photography and sound. This has taught me much about different techniques and … Keep reading

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