Unconventional Genocide Commemoration
Hrag Vartanian remembers an unconventional action staged thirty-nine years ago by American-Armenian artist Kardash Onnig outside an Armenian Church in New York. The protest which called on ethnic Armenians to “Un-hate a Turk” was held on 24 April, the day Armenians worldwide remember the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
April 24 is the traditional day to commemorating the victims of the Armenian Genocide, Kardash’s protest shocked many Armenian Americans who were angry and confused at the radical protest on such a solemn day.
Art critic Neery Melkonian noted: “..[it} rejected the [Armenian American] culture’s collective identity as a victim.”
- Published:
- 04.24.08 / 12pm by Onnik
- Category:
- Armenia, Blogs, Demonstrations, Diaspora, Genocide, History, News Briefs, Opinion, Turkey
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