Time-Riding
Albertina Carri and the Ironic Affective Presence of the Past
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2170308 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cecilia Macon (0000-0001-9195-021X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 399-414 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-9325 • E-ISSN: 1469-9575 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13569325.2018.1485555 |
| OpenAlex | W2895692354 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 20 |
Following her work as film director, Argentine artist Albertina Carri presented a series of installations called Operation Failure and the Recovered Sound. This paper analyses the five-screen video installation Research on Cattle-Rustling, the centerpiece of the exhibition put on display at the Buenos Aires’ Memory Park in 2015. It aims to explore the consequences of the notion of “queer temporality” in terms of affect as a way to approach the past. In Carri’s piece, this is done through a “logic of failure” in which the artist intends to revise the category of historic agency attributed to a project inspired by the figure of her disappeared father. Through a juxtaposition of times and spaces, she introduces the collision of ordinary (Stewart) and ugly (Ngai) affects as both a way to represent the impossibility of apprehending the past properly. To what extent do the ways in which Carri gives relevance to the role of affects in the representation of so-called traumatic pasts –conspicuously compatible here with irony- allow for the revision of certain characteristics of futurity? Is this approach to such pasts, permeated by contingent affects doomed to failure due to a somehow naïve vision of its uses in the present
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Irony · Literature · Narrative · Politics · Queer · Representation (politics · Sociology · Temporality · Visual arts · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Gender Studies · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
Ugly Feelings
Willful Subjects
Imperial Eyes
Affective Mapping
Cruel Optimism
El lenguaje de las emociones
Arranging grief
The Cultural Politics of Emotion
Ordinary Affects
The Promise of Happiness
Género, afectos y política
The Affect Theory Reader
Depression
Irony Is Not Enough
Irony in the History of Philosophy
Irony, Interpretive Form, and the Theory of Meaning
The Queer Art of Failure
The Turn to Affect
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |