Visuality, Truth, and Memory: Seeing and Affect in and from Twentieth-Century Latin America

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

This panel brings together five scholars to examine vision and visuality in twentieth-century Latin America. Each offers a methodologically generative reflection on the role of the visual within the structuring of daily experience, as a facilitator of memory work, producer of truths, and affective pathway in de-industrializing, post-dictatorship landscapes. Violence and the politics of seeing and showing are at the center of these essays on photographic, museal, and spectatorial practices. Each paper will explore how the visual sits alongside other modes of approaching the past, enquiring as to its specificity, its possibilities and its limitations.

Sub Track

• Art, Architecture and Visual Culture

Session Organizer

• Kevin P Coleman, University of Toronto

Chair

• Vikki H Bell, Goldsmiths, University of London

Individual Presentations

• Performing Archives, Performing Ruins: Affect, Rights, and Visuality in Post-dictatorship Argentina - Kaitlin M Murphy, University of Arizona

• Speaking Justly: ‘Forums for Telling’ in Argentina and Chile - Vikki H Bell, Goldsmiths, University of London

• Seeing the Nakba from Mexico - Kevin P Coleman, University of Toronto

• La rebelión del afecto: La crisis del obispado de Rosario (Argentina) a comienzos de los años setenta - Sebastián P Carassai, CONICET-Universidad Nacional de Quilmes / Universidad de Buenos Aires

• After the Catastrophe: Image Texts and the Work of Mourning in a Working-Class Community - daniel m james