Tejas Verdes: I was not there

About

“Tejas Verdes: I was not there” is a collaborative project between sociologist Margarita Palacios and visual artist Livia Marin. Bringing together Palacios’ research on violence and Marin’s work around loss and care, the project consists of visiting several ex-detention and extermination sites in Chile and the performing of an aesthetic intervention in each of them. The result of the intervention is the production of a series of abstract realist objects that register traces of the material remains of these sites, marking the materiality of the violent event in its multiple layers of meaning and yet registering its unreadability. This aesthetic intervention explores the possibilities of representing violence without reproducing it and the challenges of non-colonizing experiences of witnessing. The exhibition includes as well a photo projection that shows numerous images of both sites and objects aiming to document the places and the experience of collaboration.

Roundtable

Thursday 9th June 18:00 - 20:30 hrs.

The Aesthetics of Witnessing: A Conversation about Violence and the Challenges of its Representation, a roundtable discussion accompanying the launch of a new exhibition "Tejas Verdes: I was not there", for the Birkbeck, University of London Department of Psychosocial Studies Summer Programme 2016.

The roundtable is a conversation between Vikki Bell (Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths College), Natalia Sobrevilla Perea (Reader in Hispanic Studies, University of Kent), Jelke Boesten (Reader in Emerging Economies and International Development, Kings College London), Margarita Palacios (Senior Lecturer in Social Theory, Birkbeck College) and  Livia Marin (visual artist).

The Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London convenes an annual Summer Programme of interdisciplinary events spanning the field of psychosocial studies. The Programme provides current and prospective students, staff and the general public with an opportunity to attend lectures, seminars and conferences with distinguished speakers from the UK and abroad, and to meet with lecturers and current students on our many academic and clinical programmes. This event is sponsored by our MA in Psychosocial Studies programme.

WHERE: B04, 43 Gordon Square - Birkbeck, University of London Bloomsbury, London, WC1H 0PD

Free but booking essential : https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-aesthetics-of-witnessing-tejas-verdes-i-was-not-there-tickets-25427523407

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This project is part of an itinerant exhibition and academic events that starts in London in June 2016 and then visits Berlin and Vienna. In each opportunity there will be an exhibition and an academic event organised with Birkbeck College, University of London, Lateinamerika-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin, and the Institut für Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften, Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna. The project will the continue touring to Buenos Aires and Santiago de Chile during 2017.

This collaborative research project was funded by The Leverhulme Trust and FONDART (Chilean National Fund for the Arts and Culture) and the itinerant exhibition has been made possible through the funding of DIRAC (Chilean Office of Cultural Affairs) and the support of the Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies (CILAVS), Birkbeck College.