Dumith Kulasekara: Visual Arts Practice, Research & Writing.

The act of recalling individual and social events, shaped in the past and continually reshaped, is intrinsically connected to the individual and collective psyche. Remembering the past, at both macro and micro levels, embodies a political truth that resists disavowal, for it is the foundation upon which present identities are formed in individual, collective, and institutional contexts. In this A short note, De-abstracting, my aim is to remember a specific date that relates to a critical decision I made and unavoidable my psychic connection with one of the political traumas that occurred— ‘curated,’ I would say—on the same day on this island many years ago. It is worth noting that reflecting on past decisions and actions, and the consequences they generate within post-incident contexts, reveals how such contexts shape the rhetorical identities of both individuals and collectives moving forward. In history, some incidents occurred simultaneously or happened on similar days connecting di...