Florencia Marchetti is a documentarian with a multimedia ethnographic practice currently pursuing a PhD in Humanities at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture, Concordia University in Montreal. She is a CEREV student affiliate. Born in Cordoba, Argentina, during a time of political upheaval and violence, she has focused her recent work on the politics of memory and the traces of violent pasts in present day lives, including her own. Florencia was trained in Social Communications and Anthropology at Universidad Nacional de Cordoba before moving to California to obtain a MA in Social Documentation from UC Santa Cruz, for which she completed a video essay called Haunting Presences (2007, 29’). Florencia’s doctoral project attempts to both analyze and intervene in the production and circulation of narratives about the years of military repression, paying special attention to the differential participation of distinct social groups in contemporary memorialization processes. Her experimental approach entails what she calls “collaborative/performative acts of social analysis,” in which project participants are engaged as knowing/knowledgeable subjects during and after fieldwork, taking part of the research process through creative encounters in which new ways of thinking, feeling, perceiving, and acting may emerge. She is CEREV student affiliate.

Project Description:

Childhood and Dictatorship – I am in the beginning stages of a collaboration with the Provincial Memory Archive in Córdoba, Argentina. A publication, a series of participatory and public events as well as an exhibit are in works under a common research theme: Childhood and Dictatorship. My involvement in this process is part of a research-creation PhD project, investigating contemporary memory practices, narratives and scenarios. I’ll be landing in Montreal in time for the Encuentro, right after a six-month fieldwork period, so I would like to use this opportunity to unpack my research experiences in order to start thinking about the next steps in the collaborative process.