TY - JOUR
T1 - Making the past perceptible
T2 - Reflections on the temporal and visual enframings of violence in the museum of memory in Uruguay
AU - Draper, Susana
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The "museums of memory" (museos de la memoria) have become ambiguous and conflictive sites that articulate the demand for remembrance and oblivion as regards the recent past of state authoritarianism and dictatorships in Latin America. This article seeks to disentangle ways of reading one of these spaces of memory, the Museo de la Memoria in Montevideo, Uruguay, paying special attention to a particular exhibition wing entitled The Prisons and to a temporary art installation by Daniel Jorysz, entitled Ver... dad, exhibited in an open space adjacent to the museum from September to November 2010. Analyzing the museum collection and establishing a counterpoint with the art installation, the article searches for the ways in which (hi)stories are made perceptible within these practices both on the inside and outside, and expose the conflicts that arise in the process.
AB - The "museums of memory" (museos de la memoria) have become ambiguous and conflictive sites that articulate the demand for remembrance and oblivion as regards the recent past of state authoritarianism and dictatorships in Latin America. This article seeks to disentangle ways of reading one of these spaces of memory, the Museo de la Memoria in Montevideo, Uruguay, paying special attention to a particular exhibition wing entitled The Prisons and to a temporary art installation by Daniel Jorysz, entitled Ver... dad, exhibited in an open space adjacent to the museum from September to November 2010. Analyzing the museum collection and establishing a counterpoint with the art installation, the article searches for the ways in which (hi)stories are made perceptible within these practices both on the inside and outside, and expose the conflicts that arise in the process.
KW - Micropolitics of memory
KW - Museos de la memoria
KW - Museum of memory
KW - Politics of memory
KW - Uruguay
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U2 - 10.3167/jemms.2012.040206
DO - 10.3167/jemms.2012.040206
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84872127867
SN - 2041-6938
VL - 4
SP - 94
EP - 111
JO - Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
JF - Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
IS - 2
ER -