Struggles and memory in Latin American art

Artistic manifestations in Latin America are only remade by dialogue with resistance movements and amplify the demands of social movements. In contrast to other international artistic traditions, Latin American production is characterized by its pendor on popular struggles and a repudiation of authoritative forces, even as the artistic medium has more different individual ideological positions.

The seminar aims to address artistic production in different countries and traditions in the period of 1970 years ago. The works selected, with emphasis on literature, for analysis mark the respective eras, not only awarded with prizes, but being marked, above all, by a perspective of popular art. Art, expressed many times through cultural products, is situated in a field of constant hegemonic tensions — on the one hand, dependent on capitalist distribution models for the remuneration and survival of artists, with complex technical production chains — for example in audiovisual, phonographic and publishing productions; On the other hand, questioning and discussing, just as it is imagined, is the same distribution. More complex these tensions are presented in moments of censorship or of acirramentos caused by the rise of extreme directness in points of the continent. Thus, when discussing art and resistance, these tensions are shown to be a relevant area of ​​analysis.

The selected works pass through different regions and eras, with an emphasis on contemporary resistance. The program begins with the experience of exile and resistance against dictatorship, as the iconic album by Brazilian Caetano Veloso from 1969 and with the interventions of the Chilean collective CADA — Collective of Art Actions, originally formed by Fernando Balcells, Juan Castillo, Diamela Eltit, Lotty Rosenfeld and Raúl Zurita in 1979.

After discussing works that present the memory linked to groups that suffer constant blackouts, for example LGBTQIA+ groups and black people, discussions are drawn in the texts Hablo for me differentiates, manifesto by Chilean Pedro Lemebel (1986), poems by Uruguayan Alfredo Fressia and Argentinian Néstor Perlongher, published in the years of 1990 and excerpts of the historical narrative Eu, Tituba: black witch of Salem, by Guadalupe writer Maryse Condé (1986, with original title Moi, Tituba, sorcière… noire de Salem).

In the XXI century, the program runs through the theme of memory and resistance, based on the idea of ​​belonging and survival in the face of an economic scenario of recess and unemployment, overwhelming women. For this discussion foram colhidas or conto  Water Eyes, by Brazilian Conceição Evaristo (2015), this film For Janela, directed by Carolina Leone, produced in Argentina and Brazil (2017). Advancing the gender quests, foram chosen as the works They will dream in the Garden, by Mexican Gabriela Damián Miravete (2015), who discusses the questão do feminicídio eo conto A sua imagem, by Teresa Mira de Echeverría (2015), increasing the layer of colonialism in the equation.

The program encloses with an ecological discussion guided by various artistic voices of the continent. To address this topic, escolheu-se or text Conversation about Bem Viver, by Bolivian educator Mario Rodríguez Ibáñez (2016) and the narratives Tsintatak, by Ateri Miyawatl (2020), Nahua writer, and Seed, Mexican Illiana Vargas (2019).

There will be seven theoretical classrooms, with exhibition and debate on works of art, and three practical classrooms, where there will be exercises of creation and elaboration of essay scraps on the topics discussed. To attend the seminar, in addition to the readings and discussions, it will be the purpose or exercise to prepare a "Field Diary", a notebook of notes and reflections, so that you can observe your surroundings and your creative discoveries. The final delivery of the work may be made in the molds of a scientific article or an essay, but also in the molds of a fictional narrative in prose on some of the topics addressed in the course, accompanied by a dissertation text with respective theoretical justification.