Performing Human Rights

Contested Amnesia and Aesthetic Practices in the Global South
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-3-0358-0261-0
Verlag: diaphanes

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 630 g

Reihe: DENKT KUNST

The invisibilization of political violence, its material traces and spatial manifestations, characterize (post)conflict situations. Yet counter-semantics and dissonant narratives that challenge this invisibility have been articulated by artists, writers, and human rights activists that increasingly seek to contest the related historical amnesia. Adopting “performance” as a concept that is defined by repetitive, aesthetic practices—such as speech and bodily habits through which both individual and collective identities are constructed and perceived (Susan Slyomovics)—this collection addresses various forms of performing human rights in transitional situations in Spain, Latin America, and the Middle East. Bringing scholars together with artists, writers, and curators, and working across a range of disciplines, addresses these instances of omission and neglect, revealing how alternate institutional spaces and strategies of cultural production have intervened in the processes of historical justice and collective memory.

With contributions by Zahira Aragüete-Toribio, Pauline Bachmann, Vikki Bell, Liliana Gómez, Joscelyn Jurich, Uriel Orlow, Friederike Pannewick, Elena Rosauro, Dorota Sajewska, Stephenie Young.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gómez, Liliana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

7	-	28	Performing Human Rights. An Introduction	(Liliana Gómez)
31	-	68	Forensic Encounters Amidst Impunity: Investigating Mass Crimes in Post-Franco Spain	(Zahira Aragüete-Toribio)
69	-	100	Taking the Risk of Images, After All: Between Form and Formlessness at the Espacio Memoria y Derechos Humanos, ex-ESMA, Argentina	(Vikki Bell)
101	-	138	Beyond the Courtroom: On Dust, Haunting, and the Archive	(Liliana Gómez)
141	-	166	The Poetics and Politics of the Body in Pain. Sinan Antoon’s Novel "The Corpse Washer"	(Friederike Pannewick)
167	-	206	To Speak of the Silence of a Country. An Approach to Spanish Contemporary Artistic Practices Related to History and Memory	(Elena Rosauro)
207	-	240	Boundary-Aesthetics: Obscured Scenographies of Violence at the US/Mexican Border	(Stephenie A. Young)
243	-	296	Performing "Karama": Abounaddara’s Emergency Cinema in Theory and Praxis	(Joscelyn Jurich)
297	-	326	The Subversive Potential of Opacity: "poema/processo" and "3Nós3’s" Artistic Strategies during Brazil’s Military Dictatorship	(Pauline Bachmann)
327	-	364	Performing Periphery or the Ambivalence of Demodernization. Notes on Artur Zmijewski’s Film "Glimpse"	(Dorota Sajewska)
365	-	378	Letter from Lubumbashi	(Uriel Orlow)
379	-	384	Authors

Über Autor(innen)

Gómez, Liliana
Liliana Gómez Liliana Gómez ist Professorin an der
Kunsthochschule Kassel und dem documenta Institut. Sie leitet das Forschungsprojekt "Contested Amnesia and Dissonant Narratives in the
Global South: Post-Conflict in Literature, Art, and Emergent Archives", für das sie Förderung und die SNF-Förderungsprofessur vom Schweizerischen Nationalfond erhielt. Sie schreibt über Literatur-, Kultur- und Medientheorie der Gegenwart, Theorie und Geschichte der Moderne im besonderen mit Blick auf die Kunst, die Stadt und Botanik, Ästhetik und postkoloniale Studien, Memory Studies, Literatur, Kunst und Menschenrechte, die Visuellen Kulturen und environmental humanities. Kürzlich hat sie Performing Human Rights: Contested Amnesia and
Aesthetic Practices in the Global South (diaphanes, 2021) herausgegeben und ist Mitherausgeberin von
Liquid Ecologies in Latin American and Caribbean Art (Routledge, 2020). Zudem ist sie Autorin von Archive Matter: A Camera in the Laboratory
of the Modern (diaphanes, 2023) Chefredakteurin des Magazins Latin
American and Latinx Visual Culture.