Dearest Elsa walked into my office at the University of Leeds to shine the brilliant light of her sparkling intelligence, the rigour of her passionate politics and the warmth of her infectious smile. It has been my privilege to learn from Elsa Hsiang-Chun over many years as she worked on her doctoral dissertation, spending many hours with me thinking about history, trauma and memory. She opened my world to many new aspects, brought Taiwan's art and history into my consciousness and understanding. We schemed and planned projects together about international feminism and new ways of understanding our relations across the planet. She was such an extraordinary thinker and I owe her a huge debt for having come into my life and enriched the larger feminist community across the world. The last thing I could do for her was to ensure that she was 'present' at the Centennial Panel on Feminism at the American College Art Association. I spoke her words at the panel about models for creating networks that displaced the false centring of globalization in the Euro/American axis. The paper and her naming and presentation is now on the Documenta 13 website. It is a small tribute to a powerful and sensitive voice in international feminism and art history. Her loss is profound. What we have lost in her not being able to continue to flourish as a teacher and a thinker is even more profound. But the loss experienced by her family and her beloved daughter is so much deeper that all I want to say in the end is that I admired and loved Elsa who was truly a light and a joy to all who knew her. Although there is little comfort in knowing that your mother was as loved and admired as she was, I offer my deepest respect as a poor offering but a sincere act of love that means that I will always cherish the memory of this wonderful woman, my friend.
PROFESSOR GRISELDA POLLOCK
Director, Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory & History (CentreCATH)
Professor of Social & Critical Histories of Art,
School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies,
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT UK
tel 44 (0)113 343 5267
fax 44 (0)113 245 197
Recent Publications:
BRACHA L. ETTINGER : Art as compassion
Edited Catherine de Zegher, Griselda Pollock
ASP Publishers 2011 ISBN: 9789461170088
Griselda Pollock
Allo-thanatography or Allo-auto-biography:
A few thoughts on one painting in Charlotte Salomon's Leben? oder Theater? 1941-42
Documenta 13 Notebook (Hatje Cantz 2011) ISBN 978-3-7757-2877-5
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