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tagged Genocide:  Past as Future:  The Burden of the Genocide
Memorial  Designing a memorial or a museum to explain a genocide
is no easy task. A genocide, by definition, is complex,
contextualized, unfathomable, horrific in its scope. Such events
resist placards, exhibit halls, memorial sculptures, public art
pieces. The risk of oversimplification through memorialization
has not prevented people from trying, however. Indeed,
internationally there has been a wide precedent for genocide
memorials, with varying approaches and varying degrees of
success.  Figure 1: Exhibit overload at the US Holocaust Museum.
One of the most universally lauded is the Holocaust Museum in
Washington, DC, where visitors become complicit in the
experience when they are assigned an actual ID card from one of
the inhabitants of the Nazi concentration camps. After an
exhaustive, three hour tour through the museum, wading through
image after image, artifact after artifact, th