coming to terms with the force of water tsunami memorial
proposal | tsunami memorial by adrian benoit colin herperger evan marroch zach pauls mike von tiesenhausen rob zacharias
Norway tsunami memorials trauma perspective
The tsunami that devastated South-East Asia on December 26, 2004, demands we come to terms with not only its own substantial aftermath, but with the nature of the traumatic event itself. CEZMAR studio entered a tsunami memorial competition in Norway, a country that lost many of its citizens to the tsunami, and contributed massively to Thailand’s post-tsunami reconstruction. We have proposed twenty-five 5 metre tall, vertical stone slabs that radiate like shockwaves from a central point. Tragic events wound space, as well as well as history. As the (shock)wave raced across the Indian Ocean towards the African
coast, the moment of the tragic event was expanded and prolonged, allowing the world’s television viewers to experience the event in real time, becoming participants in its trauma. One result of the televised disaster is that it split the location of the event in two, creating two distinct spaces and experiences: that of the victim, located in site- specific areas of the Asian coastline, and that of the viewer, whose location is dispersed around the globe. Our project replicates this split between the chaotic experience of the victim and the voyeuristic experience of the viewer by designating two distinct vantage points. The first at the epicentre of the
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