23 nov 2010

Notes on memories

Participamos de esta exposición con material recolectado durante la investigación de Hacerme Feriante.



















1. Ferrocarril Midland efectua un viaje de pruebas en las inmediaciones de la laguna La Salada durante las inundaciones de octubre de 1937. Archivo AGN. Revista Todo Trenes 40. Abril 2006.
2. Estado actual de mural en Estación de tren "La Salada"
3. Cubierta de DVD distribuido en la Feria.

Curator Sophie Goltz
Opening: November 23, 7 pm
November 24, 2010 – 21 Januar 21, 2011

Artists and Theorists:
Archivo Caminante, John Akomfrah / David Lawson,
Alexandertechnik, Julián d`Angiolillo, Cordula Daus, Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda/Julien Enoka Ayemba, Maryam Jafri, Brigitta Kuster, Carlos Motta, Felipe Mujica, K2AO/Stephan Dillemuth, Runo Lagomarsino, Principio Potosí,Wendelin van Oldenborgh, Lisl Ponger, Carlos Trillnick
Façade with wall-newspaper Intersections of Art, Pedagogy and Protest by Eva Egermann, Elke Krasny, Julia Wieger
Leaving the official gestures of this year celebrations "Bicentenario" (200 years of independency in parts of Latin America) and the "50-Years Independency" (in parts of Africa) behind, Notes on Memories takes its starting point in the general fact of the decolonialization struggles: for some it is a past, still going on, for others a hope for a better future, which will never come true.
Notes on Memories is the hybrid result of the fusing together of archival material, artefakts, texts, images, and other obsessions and different sets of investigations to raise a new set of concerns, concerns on the relationship between memory and identity, between monument and commemoration, between pain and imagination.
Conceived as a "labyrinth" in various distinct but interrelated parts, Notes on Memories is organized around the potentiality of future, as part of working with history: which future may be imagined, while working with the past, and what kind of images and forms of organisation this future may create today? It uses this montage of material to show overlapping concerns on legacy and inheritance, on the unspoken and the perils of kinship, on the ethics of image making.