Andrea Connor

Email: Andrea.L.Connor@student.uts.edu.au

Thesis Title: Afterlife: Reconstructing Affect at Sites of Monumental Destruction

Andrea's work examines the "afterlife" of two monumental social objects, physically transformed through acts of cultural destruction and their contested reconfiguration in new highly political contexts. Marked by traumatic destruction the Mostar Bridge in Bosnia and the World Trade Centre in New York have both assumed an afterlife in the present as sites of collective remembering and forgetting, imbued with a form of mediating agency that is affective as much as conceptual.

Other Research Interests:
Material Culture
Space, Place, and Landscape 
Cultural Heritage 
Cultural Memory/Social forgetting

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.