Artistic Representations in post-Shining Path Peru
First Curatorial Research Group ‘Incubator’ Session of 2011,
led by Cynthia E. Milton (U. de Montréal).
Friday, January 28th, 2011. 1-3pm.
LB 671.7
This workshop focuses on art in post-Shining Path Peru in order to imagine a theory and methodology for engaging with artistic representations in the aftermath of violence. Artistic representations further our understanding of violent histories by offering a different means for recounting the past. By choosing to focus on artistic/visual memory in Peru, I hope to illuminate the ways in which art can recount the past, and indeed how venues of art can have an impact upon memory discourses in the public sphere, that is, the memory battles that take place within the cultural domain.
Cynthia E. Milton holds Canada Research Chair in Latin American history and is Associate Professor in the Département d’histoire at the Université de Montréal. She is author of The Many Meanings of Poverty: Colonialism, Social Compacts, and Assistance in Eighteenth-Century Ecuador (Stanford: Stanford Univ, Press, 2007), co-editor of The Art of Truth-Telling about Authoritarian Rule (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005), co-editor of Curating Difficult Knowledge: Violent Pasts in Public Places (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), and editor of The Art(s) of Truth-telling in Post-Shining Path Peru (soon to be submitted to Duke Univ. Press).
Image: “Tras la sombra del dolor” (Luis Cuba Arango, Pampamarca, Vinchos)
