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In this chapter we attempt to come to terms with our simultaneous roles as researchers and research subjects who use creative practice (primarily video, text and installation) to shed light on our own postmemorial urges (Hirsch, 1997). Our raw materials are our personal encounters with the traumatic ghosts of an intimate, yet distant, past: those of family stories preceding our birth. Woven into this exploration are issues connected with the effects of modernity and our digital era in particular, especially the ever-expanding range of media creation tools for resuscitating and disseminating aspects of the past that, once revived, haunt the present (Derrida, 1993; Gordon, 1997). We explore the ways in which these methods have simultaneously fuelled and complicated what we do, how we do it, and how this relates to others ’ practices of remembering.
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Schutt, S., Berry, M. (2012). How the ‘I’ Sees it. In: Vicars, M., McKenna, T., White, J. (eds) Discourse, Power, and Resistance Down Under. Transgressions, vol 88. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-037-8_9
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