Spectral Violence: Art and Disappearance in Post-Ayotzinapa Mexico

Autores

  • Joaquin Barriendos Associate Professor at UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico).

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22456/2179-8001.104676

Palavras-chave:

Mexico, Contemporary Art, Ayotzinapa, Disappearance, Memory, Human Rights

Resumo

In Mexico, memory has become a battlefield nowadays. The Ayotzinapa case (2014) –a still unresolved State-level human rights violation, including the disappearance of 43 students– transformed the public space into a permanent struggle between governmental amnesia and the politics of truth. With the emergence of various massive clandestine graves all across the country, a new form of violence emerged, characterized by the spectral materiality of the absent body. In this article, I elaborate on the relation between disappearance, social memory, and creative activism in recent Mexican art. Using the investigations of Forensic Architecture in Mexico as a case study, the text discusses the role of visual culture in the articulation of what I call the performativity of human rights.

Resumo

No México contemporâneo, a memória virou um campo de batalha. O caso Ayotzinapa (2014) –uma violação de direitos humanos orquestrada pelo Estado e ainda não resolvida, incluindo a situação de 43 estudantes ainda desaparecidos– transformou o espaço público em uma luta permanente entre a amnésia governamental e as políticas da verdade. O surgimento de fossas comuns clandestinas em todo o país propiciou  também uma nova forma de violência caracterizada pela materialidade espectral do corpo ausente. O artigo pesquisa a relação entre desaparecimento, memória social e ativismo criativo na arte mexicana recente. Usando as investigações da Forensic Architecture no Mexico como estudo de caso, vamos analisar o papel da cultura visual na articulação do que o autor descreve como a performatividade dos direitos humanos. 

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Biografia do Autor

Joaquin Barriendos, Associate Professor at UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico).

 

Joaquin Barriendos is Associate Professor at UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico). He writes on the intersection of Latin American art and modernist aesthetic cosmopolitanism. He is the author of various books, including Archivos Fuera de Lugar (2017), Juan Acha. Revolutionary Awakening (2017), Art Geography and the Global Challenge of Critical Thinking (2011), and Geoestética y Transculturalidad (2007).

Referências

Barriendos, Joaquin. “Spectral Topographies: Fosses, Aesthetics and the Politics of Truth in Mexico” [paper presented during at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal on March 31, 2017, as a part of the International Symposium on Topographies of Mass Violence’, organized by the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)].

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Steyerl, Hito. “Missing People: Entanglement, Superposition, and Exhumation as Sites of Indeterminacy” in: The Wretched of the Screen. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2012, pp. 138-159.

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Publicado

2018-11-25

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Barriendos, J. (2018). Spectral Violence: Art and Disappearance in Post-Ayotzinapa Mexico. PORTO ARTE: Revista De Artes Visuais (Qualis A2), 24(42). https://doi.org/10.22456/2179-8001.104676

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DOSSIÊ: Apagamentos da memória na arte