ERIC Number: EJ952907
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011
Pages: 16
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Interrupting Commemoration: Thinking with Art, Thinking through the Strictures of Argentina's "Espacio para la memoria"
Paolantonio, Mario Di
Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, v32 n5 p745-760 2011
Recently, a few buildings within the "Espacio para la memoria" in Buenos Aires have been designated as a UNESCO Centre where, amongst other educational activities, evidentiary materials of the past repression are to be stored and displayed. Another building in the complex houses a Community Centre operated by the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, where the mandate is to learn about and continue the revolutionary ideals of those disappeared during the repression. Amid these commemorative projects, designating a space for exhibiting art presents a significant opportunity for posing difficult questions, which go beyond the terms of information and idealization. Through a close reading of Diana Dowek's art exhibit, "A Long March", the paper invites us to consider how art can draw out a particular haunting temporality that holds the present open to provocative questions that are difficult to pose and sustain amid the strictures of this commemorative site. (Contains 4 notes and 3 figures.)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Art, Exhibits, Memory, Learning, Latin American History, Conflict, Politics, Ethics, Instruction
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Argentina (Buenos Aires)
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