Archives that Move Us: Memory, Conflict and the Affective Persuasion of Art

This video is a recording of the opening session of Mediations of the Archive: Art, Community and Political Action, the first research seminar from the Cáder Institute forCentral American Art (ICAC). The session took place on Tuesday, 7 April 2026 and featured the participation of Emilia Yang, Carlos Henríquez Consalvi, known as Santiago, and Ileana Rodríguez, with moderation by Sofía Villena Araya.

From violent episodes in Central America, specific cases of institutional imaginations of memory and archive were explored, in addition to a reflection on art’s capacity to intervene in the political when the legal and the official are insufficient.