{"id":621,"date":"2022-02-10T12:30:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T12:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lindaokeeffe.com\/blog\/?p=621"},"modified":"2022-02-10T14:27:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T14:27:58","slug":"commission-for-holocaust-museum-huddersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lindaokeeffe.com\/blog\/commission-for-holocaust-museum-huddersfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Commission for Holocaust Museum Huddersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"

In January 2022 I began to develop a commission of sound work under the heading audio guides, for the Holocaust Exhibition and Learning Centre in Huddersfield<\/a>. I will spend the next several months working with archived interviews, and recording interviews with survivors and reading a lot of work on the Holocaust, in order to develop this body of work. Currently working my way through Peter Hayes Why? Explaining the Holocaust, which is a brilliant book presenting the statistical facts of the time period to counter the narrative that was developed in order to create, what was in essence, a race war.<\/p>\n

As for building a soundscape that reflects the museum exhibition, which is also an aesthetic and conceptual body of work, this has been a difficult thought to process, how can I create an art work that reflects what I think but does not in any way make light of this experience.<\/p>\n

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Image from Holocaust Archive<\/p><\/div>\n

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Postcards from the Labour Camps with Nazi stamps<\/p><\/div>\n

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Prison camp uniform<\/p><\/div>\n

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Prison Camp Utensils<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Star of David Jews had to wear<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In January 2022 I began to develop a commission of sound work under the heading audio guides, for the Holocaust Exhibition and Learning Centre in Huddersfield. I will spend the next several months working with archived interviews, and recording interviews with survivors and reading a lot of work on the Holocaust, in order to develop […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindaokeeffe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindaokeeffe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindaokeeffe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindaokeeffe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindaokeeffe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lindaokeeffe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"https:\/\/lindaokeeffe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindaokeeffe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindaokeeffe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindaokeeffe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}