SAVANNA M.

FALTER
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY
B.A. ART HISTORY & CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

VIOLENCE & ARTISTIC

CREATION OF CULTURAL
MEMORY
AN EXPLORATION OF LATIN AMERICAN ART
STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE IN LATIN AMERICA

DIRTY WARS: ~1920-1990

  Guerrilla & civil wars, military coup d état

  State terror & legitimated violence
▸  Creation of an enemy: communists/socialists, Native peoples,
LGBT+ individuals, etc.

▸  Genocide, mass disappearances, torture

  Influence of the United States: money, military, & political
support

▸  ‘Shock therapy’ capitalism

ARTISTIC CREATION AS CULTURAL MEMORY

CULTURAL MEMORY

  Cultural memory produced through images/

representations

  Shared outside of formal historical discourse

▸  Entangled with cultural products
  Artistic creation influences cultural memory, enacting
social transformation within history
1989-PRESENT

CONTEMPORARY ART
  Globalization
  Infiltration of neoliberalism
▸  privatization of the public sphere, profit over people, disorganization of classes
▸  Alienation of space, time, and the individual
  Can art still be used to wake people up?
  3 categories:
▸  Remodernist/Spectacle
▸  Post-Colonial
▸  Post-Internet/Social Practice (SOPRA)

Terry Smith, What is Contemporary Art?, 2009

Marc Augé, Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity, 1998

 Post Colonial
Spectacle

Damien Hirst, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991

Shirin Neshat, Rebellious Silence, 1994

Social Practice (SOPRA)

Post-Internet
THE CHILEAN COLLECTIVE DE ACIDNESS DE ARTE (CADA)

Para no morir de hambre en el arte (Not to die of hunger in art), 1979

Members of CADA distributing milk bags to locals in La Granja, Santiago, Chile

 CADA, Not to die of hunger in art, 1979, milk bags

Monica Hantke, Milk Bag, 1979 Artist & Title Unknown, 1979
CADA, Not to die of hunger in art, 1979, exhibition
TERESA MARGOLLES
What else could we speak about?, 2009, detail

Exhibition: Venice Biennale, 2009

TERESA MARGOLLES
What else could we speak about?, 2009

Exhibition: Venice Biennale, 2009

TERESA MARGOLLES What else could we speak about?, 2009

Exhibition: Venice Biennale, 2009

REGINA JOSÉ GALINDO
Who can erase the traces?, 2003