This book explores the historical and contemporary connections between art and politics in Colombia. These relations are unique because of the ways in which they are saturated by violence, as the country has passed through conquest, struggles for Independence, fighting between political factions, civil war, paramilitaries, narco-traffickers and state violence. This seemingly unending stream of violence gives art in Colombia one of its main themes. The lavishly illustrated essays, written by Colombian authors, examine Colombian visual arts, music, theatre, literature, cinema, indigenous arts, popular culture, militant publications and recent protest movements, analysing them with tools drawn from contemporary philosophy and theory. Approaches include decolonisation theory, cosmopolitics, anthropology after the ontological turn, Colombian philosophy, feminism, and French theory. The essays all offer powerful understandings of how art has not only been complicit in perpetuating political violence in Colombia, but also how it has been a vital form of analysis and resistance.
Author(s): Stephen Zepke, Nicolás Alvarado Castillo
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 299
City: Cham
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Violence and Resistance: Art and Politics in Colombia—Introduction
Academic Engagements with Violence
Movements Toward Peace in the 2000s
The “Dissipated Molecular Revolutions” of the National Strike
Art and Protest
Art and Memory
Addressing Trauma
The Gualí Series
Part I: Social Engagement
The Project of Engaged Science and the Appearance of the ‘People’ in Colombia
Introduction
The Peasant Civil War
Engaged Science
Conclusions
References
In-Situ Aesthetics as Local Politics: Gilbert Simondon and the 21N Protest Movement
Introduction
The Protest
Image and Invention
The Transindividual
Technology and Aesthetics
Conclusion
References
Part II: Memory and Sensation
The Resistance of the Unarchivable: From Myth to History in José Alejandro Restrepo’s Musa Paradisiaca
From the Archive to the Unarchivable
Memory as Mourning
Between Myth and History
References
The Emancipated Bodies of Nicolás Rincón-Gille: Dissenting Memories, amidst Devastations
A Filmmaker on Capacity, Despite Everything
A Countryside That Is Allowed to Speak3
A Dissensual Memory
References
Bestial Sound: Affect, Metaphor and Posthuman Memory in Clemencia Echeverri’s Sacrificio
References
Part III: The Anthropological Turn
Inverted Worlds: The Cannibal Aesthetics of the Pictographs at Cerro Azul
References
The Violence over Memory: Archeology, Heritage, and Indigenous Histories in Colombia
First Vignette: Archeology and Mestizaje
Second Vignette: Heritage in the Gold Museum
Third Vignette: The Indigenous Story
Final Thoughts
References
The River Spirit and the River Citizen: Epistemic Forms of Violence and the Languages of Transformative Critique
Mountains and Rivers Taking the Floor in the Back Stage
Political Ontologies, and … Political Semiologies?
The River Citizen, the River Spirit: Dissenting Languages, Dissenting Temporalities
References
Part IV: Transgression
Beyond Transgression: Representations of Violence and Politics in La técnica del hombre blanco
The General Form of the ‘Limit-Experience’
‘It happens in any civilized circle’: Transgression, Sovereignty and Value
‘The radio that only knows how to talk about burnt ranches’: How to Describe and How to Break the Cycle of Extreme Violence
‘I only fear that no one will ever find my corpse’: Poetry and Ethical Duty Beyond Transgression
‘With complicity and a certain coquetry’: The Return of the Verfremdungseffekt and the Limits of Representation
References
Antagonisms and the Fascinating Adversary: Nicolás Gómez Dávila’s Early Readings of Nietzsche, Marx, and Sade
Reading Gómez Dávila’s Early Work: Numerous Successive Hypotheses
Nietzsche, a Noble Soul on the Shores of Madness
Marx and the Strength of the Communist Idea
Sade, the Universe Without God
References
Part V: Feminism
Supine and Naked America
Introduction
Amerigo and America
El Desencuentro7
Woman as Territory
Mountains
Violence
Upside Down World
References
Stories of Local Music: Women, Invisibilization and Resistance in Colombia
Mode of Access: Bias
Epistemic Injustice and Music
Research and Education About Music in Colombia
Invisibilizations
References
The Gestural Dimension of Artistic Practice: Performance, Politics and Responsibility in Zoitsa Noriega’s Installation-Performance Daphne
Introduction
Daphne as a Critique of Gender Violence
The Carnal Dimension of Responsibility
Concluding Remarks
References
Index
