The Moment in Memory. Narrating History Dates: 27 February – 20 March, 2010 The Moment in Memory. Narrating History is an interdisciplinary project in different formats, mediums and spaces that alludes to subjective memory's ways of loss, trauma and narration. It thus comes from official oral history, the return to intimate and family remembrance, as well as the character of the documentary as artistic, dialectic and fragmentary practice. . Curated by Virginia Villaplana, this project focuses its attention on the visual historical memory of the mass graves resulting from the Franco repression in Valencia. Buried here, between April 1, 1939 and December 31, 1945, were thousands of victims of summary executions, tortures and beatings by the brutal Franco apparatus. A period of conflict and denial in Spanish history, where ignorance of the exhumation and identifying processes of bodies undermines the democratic pact on which the Spanish Transition was constructed. A few years ago, some of these Valencia mass graves were covered with concrete, and over their cemented memory new niches were built. The Moment in Memory is a gaze at this recent past, blending private testimonies and research with photographs taken during two years of work in these graves, a condemnation both realistic and poetical that speaks of the need to recover our recent memory. Narrating history Dates: February 27 and 28 and March 6, 13 and 20 This cycle of videos and conferences tries to create a place for critical reflection on the types of representation in democratic processes. It places the revision of the imaginary in the Spanish Transition within the sphere of documental evidence, and includes three talks by Francesc Torres, María Ruido and Pedro Ortuño. Works from Marcelo Expósito, Arturo "Fito" Rodríguez, José Antonio Hergueta, Marta de Gonzalo y Publio Pérez Prieto, Ocaña, Pedro Ortuño, Antonio Perumanes, Josu Rekalde, María Ruido, Francesc Torres and Gabriel Villota. After ... The Moment in Memory Date: February 22 to 26, 2010 This workshop run by Virginia Villaplana, Marta de Gonzalo and Publio Pérez Prieto focuses on the poetry and strategies needed to confront the relationship between memory’s narration and Spanish’s democratic history. Starting from the notions of visual document, metaphor, landscape and storytelling of the infraordinary, the participants will elaborate a mural and texts written in a style between reality and fiction. |
