Let Them Haunt Us analyzes contemporary aesthetics engaged in trauma
and critically challenges its canonical status as »unrepresentable«.
Focusing on case studies in the aesthetic practices of Janet Cardiff and
George Bures Miller, Omer Fast, Forensic Architecture, and Paul McCarthy
this book proposes to redefine trauma as a productive framework to
exploring individual, collective, and cultural conflicts addressed in
current artistic and curatorial practices. Anna-Lena Werner considers
the aesthetic realm as a potential forum that provides methods of
understanding the humanitarian consequences of violence and warfare, and
to reveal the effects of trauma on visual culture, collective memory,
and politics.