Fragile narratives: memory and moving images in Colombian Art
Lecture B3 Biennale des bewegten Bildes 2013
3 November 2013, 11am-12.15pm
Frankfurter Kunstverein
Steinernes Haus am Römerberg
Markt 44
60311 Frankfurt am Main
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The lecture focuses on two artworks by two Colombian artists, the video installation "Project for a Memorial" (2002) by Oscar Munoz and the moving photographs "Novenarios abiding" (2012) by José Manuel Echavarría. Through moving images these artists create a suggestive narrative for the problem of memory and representation of violence in Colombia. the lecture will show how these works keep company to the silence left by the war and become, thanks to the discontinued temporalities and the intervals made possible by its moving narratives, a plea and a place for mourning.

Prof. Dr. María del Rosario Acosta Lopez, Phd Philospohy, is Professor at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, and currently a guest researcher, funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, in the Cluster of Exzcellence "The formation of normative Orders". She is the author of books on German Romanticism and F. Schiller, and has edited books on Hegel, Schiller, contemporary philosophy oft art, and contemporary politica philosophy. Her current interests are related to Colombian Transitional Justice Process and the questions of memory and representation of violence in Law and Art.
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