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The artist as historian, strategies against the erasure of memory
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If history is what was collectively decided to be remembered, artists often emphasize what was collectively decided to be forgotten. Susan Sontag summed up the attitude of many contemporary artists who propose an alternative to the narrative of the dominant history, which was often written by the victors, by freely using the tools of the "historian". The artist Kader Attia highlights both the wound and the healing process while Jean-François Boclé dictates the Black Code in a performance piece. Without becoming true historians, artists symbolically attempt to heal "postcolonial melancholy" and propose different strategies against forgetfulness or denial of memory. These questions are currently back on the table in the light of discussions concerning the restitution of objects to Africa by Western museums.
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0103-7269
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Michael, Androula
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23 de dezembro de 2019
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https://seer.ufrgs.br/PortoArte/article/view/110145 | 10.22456/2179-8001.110145
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https://seer.ufrgs.br/PortoArte/article/view/110145/59940 | /*ref*/Walter Benjamin, « Sur le concept d’histoire » (1940), Œuvres III, Paris, Gallimard, 2000 | /*ref*/Alain Mabanckou, Le sanglot de l'homme noir, Paris, Fayard, 2012. | /*ref*/Sigmund Freud, "Mourning and melancholia", in On the history of the psycho-analytic movement. Papers on Metapspychology and Other works, The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Gigmund Freud, translated from the German under the General Editorship of James Strachey, in collaboration with Anna Freud, assisted by Alix Strachey and Alan Tyson, Volume XIV (1914-1916). | /*ref*/The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self under Colonialism, Londres/USA, Oxford University Press, 1983. | /*ref*/Anibal Quijano, "Coloniality and Modernity/Rationality", Cultural Studies, 21/2-3, 2007, | /*ref*/N. W Thiongo, Decolonizing the Mind. The Politics of Language in African Literature, Heinemann, New York, 1986. | /*ref*/Serge Gruzinski, La colonisation de l'imaginaire, Gallimard, Paris, 1988. | /*ref*/Felwine Sarr et Bénédicte Savoy, Restituer le patrimoine africain, Paris, Philippe Rey/Le Seuil, 2018
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Direitos autorais 2019 Androula Michael | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
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PORTO ARTE: Revista de Artes Visuais; v. 24, n. 42 (2019): DOSSIÊ: Apagamentos da memória na arte | 2179-8001
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Art; | History, memory, trauma, reparation, restitution of African heritage. | arte
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | "Avaliado pelos pares", "Artigo não avaliado pelos pares",