The Task of the Museum in Shaping the Aesthetic-political Field of Memory in Post-pinochet Chile

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2289508
AutoresPaulina Faba Zuleta (Alberto Hurtado University), Ángel Aedo Gajardo (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
Año2020
Volumen43
Número2
Páginas94-110
Fecha de publicación2020-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMuseum Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0892-8339 • E-ISSN: 1548-1379
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/muan.12226
OpenAlexW3121474498
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas32

How does a museum shape the experience of memory? Focusing on the Chilean Museum of Memory and Human Rights (MMHR), this article develops this question through the analysis of the entanglement of sensations, values, affects, and the museum forms of addressing the beholder. The paper deepens on three critical phenomena that contribute to the shaping of the experience of memory among a heterogeneous public: (1) the acknowledgment of the visitor's presence, (2) the mediation of memory, and (3) the emergence of an anonymous voice that takes place as a collective expression of the people. It argues that the material arrangements of the MMHR become forms of detachment from the past that shape the aesthetic-political field of memory in post-Pinochet Chile. [Museum of Memory and Human Rights (MMHR), politics, aesthetics, Chile

Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Visual Culture and Art Theory