AMST 384 1nd Edition Lecture 30Outline of Last Lecture II. PTSDIII. Image of a VeteranOutline of Current Lecture Lecture: Maya Lin - Reaction to 21 year old chinese (main suppliers of enemies of US) woman, controversial - People thought she doesn’t know what its like thereo Not a professional architecto Didn’t do research into the waro Inexperience and lack of connection with the horror - Public pressure to justify her design and stand up against ignorant racism Two Other Memorials at the Site- Site of acreeding memory and the gathering of other memorials around each other- 1. The Vietnam Soldier’s Memorialso “The Three Infantrymen” - 2. The Vietnam Women’s Memorials o Designed by Glenna Goodacre who also designed the Sacajawea dollar coin  Made African American women into official memory o Traditional view of women portrayed in the site, mostly as nurses  Honors all women, not just soldier women - Maya Lin said that these additional memorials are to please all of the people and compromise works. These statues leave only the false reading that the wall is for the dead and the others are for the living when the design she made was also for returning veterans. o Controversial between Maya and other memorial artists Suicide because of PTSD:- Plaque that says “In memory of the men and women who served in the Vietnam war and later died as a result of their service”- Attempt to open up the memorial to those who died, but not necessarily died when they were at war- Attempt to be more inclusiveo So wall doesn’t exclude the trauma soldiers These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.Controversy of Memorials- Only honors/has the names of the American soldierso Nationalismo However, forgets about the human costs of all those who fought for our country o Vernacular to our country that is why it doesn’t include the Vietnam soldiers who died - Belongs to a certain Imagined Community o Community is partial - Attempt to open up the monument and less exclusive to those who died just at battleVirtual Wall- Online memorial of Vietnam wallThe Moving Wall- Half the size of the real wall that circulates from state to state so people don’t have to travel to D.C. to see the Vietnam Wall North Carolina Vietnam Veterans Memorial AIDS Memorial Quilt- Had names of soldiers sewed into a quilt o Different than Maya Lin’s Memorial Wall because the names are not uniform and all the same. Here, they are designed by families, can be nicknames, etc. and colorful/personalized to the individual - Each panel was different from the resto So family members had a way to make their patch uniqueo Personalizedo Public presence o Material Memory - Everyone who died from AIDS on the quilt o More than just gay people dyingo Woman also on the quilto Makes public realize how drastic/dangerous this disease was- Quilt helps Universalize the disease- The D.C. Mall (field between Washington memorial and Congress) o All AIDS Memorial Quilts were laid down on the land and displayed- Quilts can be spread aroundo Like the Vietnam “Moving Wall”- All Vernacular memory on a Public scaleo However, a temporary display. Not permanent- Processual Display because there were so many that needed to be displayed there wasn’t enough room on the land, so they would put one down and replace it with another- Mobile Monument - Problems of AIDS is still ongoing and the quilt memorial can still continue to grow with the epidemic - No Hierarchy, not even alphabetizedo Unpredictable memory o Shows the imagined community don’t need to know each other to be connected Raises the question about who is not included in the AIDS Quilt Memorial2015: Virtual Quilt- More transnational- Raising awareness of AIDS and HIV and help preventing the birth of babies with HIV because it is almost 98% preventable Gay/Lesbian Sites of Memory- “Freedom Flag”o popularized as a symbol of gay communityo rainbow flag o make it more mainstream way to display their pride for the gay community- Triangleo Turning the nazi symbol upside down to present gays and wearing them with pride o Gain identity- GBQTIAo Different names of sexualitieso Gay, bisexual, queer, transgender, intersex, asexualo QUILTBAG (acronym) - StoneWallo Public site where gays would rebelo Now it is a public site of memory - What kind of queer memory did the trauma of the AIDS crisis repress or forget?o The quilt is still about deatho What about celebrating alternate forms of