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Eduardo Molinari and Nicolás Varchausky. Tertulia (instalación)
“We split every instant into perception and memory, into everything we see, feel, experience, into everything we are and everything around us. If we become aware of this splitting, we will contemplate all of our present, at the same time, as perception and as memory. There would not be a memory were it not for the fact that it is, above all, a memory of the present.” Virno Paolo
This work is a fragment of the visual and sound night intervention performed at the Cemetery of Recoleta in September 2005 as part of the Cross-over Project (Fifth Buenos Aires International Festival). Tertulia is a conversation, a collective memory building experience stemming from the configuration of a situation; it does not follow a chronological nor documentary order, but a multiplicity of voices, a beam of tales. From this intervention a special “dialogue” between the Fallen in the Paraguay War and Dictator José Félix Uriburu was selected. It is the thread of unordinary temporality of the memory that allows us to articulate the actions of State terrorism during the last military dictatorship with the current discourse about the “axis of evil”. Annihilating the adversary as proposal of both lines of thought can be seen in the phrases “no te metás” (stay out) and “if you see something, say something”: silence and denunciation as two sides of the same coin. Along that same thread, the sound of the loading or unloading of a rifle is extended in time pinpointing the start and end of that genocide conduct, from the first to the last dictatorship: the sound of the cocked weapon, like the tick-tock of a watch that measures our everyday time. Eduardo Molinari and Nicolás Varchausky
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Tertulia / 22 Paraguay / 23 Uriburu (2005) Nicolás Varchausky / Eduardo Molinari. Instalation: Backlight, veil impression, stereo sound. Graphic material: Archive Caminante. Sound material: Archive P.A.I.S. y E.T.E.R. Variable Dimensions
About Eduardo Molinari
Eduardo is a Visual Artist, a professor at the IUNA and the Co-editor of the label Colección Orbital. He was born in 1961. He lives and works in his house-workshop “ombu”, in Martínez, Buenos Aires. His latest exhibitions have been: “El cuchillo”, National Archives, Bs. As.; “Tres Orillas-Drei Ufer”, Cistercian Convent, Neuzelle and Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden, Germany; “El Cruce”, Museo Irureta, Tilcara, Jujuy, together with Azul Blaseotto; “El camino del Volcán”, Cultural Center, Los Antiguos, Santa Cruz; Rendering of the Book “Día de Muertos”, together with Diego Perrotta 1999; “Manifiesto Cimarrón”, Biblioteca Miguel Cané, Bs. As., together with D’alessandro, Larrañaga, Larrambebere and Pons.
About Nicolás Varchausky
He was born in Buenos Aires in 1973. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Composing with Electro-acoustic Means. (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes). He is currently directing Proyecto Arte In Situ (P.A.I.S.-Acoustic Theater Program-UNQ), where he explores the relations among space, sound and spoken voice. Since 1997 he has been a member of Ensamble Nacional del Sur. He has edited “Intervenciones 99/00” and “La estupidez/La modestia”, among others. He also writes scores for theater pieces. He lives and works in Bs. As.
Participant artists
Alejandro Schianchi / Carlos Trilnick / Claudia Aravena / Edgar Endress / Eduardo Molinari y Nicolás Varchausky / Graciela Taquini / Guillermo Cifuentes / Gustavo Galuppo / Iván Marino / Julieta Hanono / Leandro Nuñez / Mariela Yeregui / Raúl Minsburg / Ricardo Dal Farra / Ricardo Pons