Coco Fusco | Unerasable Memories

Artist comments on her Bare Life Study #1 performance, a denunciation of the US military’s treatment of its political prisoners

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Ayrson Heráclito | Unerasable Memories

The artist discusses the enslavement of black people brought from Africa to Brazil in his Barrueco, created in partnership with Danillo Barata

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Octavio Zaya | Unerasable Memories

The Spanish curator comments on Letter To My Father (Standing By the Fence), by Colombia’s Carlos Motta, about the September 11 attacks

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Enio Staub | Unerasable Memories

The main purpose of Enio Staub’s Contestado, a Guerra Desconhecida is to shed light on the civil war that took place in Paraná and Santa Catarina States between 1912 and 1916

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Aurélio Michiles | Unerasable Memories

The filmmaker from Manaus discusses his documentary O Sangue da Terra, a portrayal of an oil company’s invasion of the Sateré-Mawé tribe territory’s in the 1980s

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Sebastián Diaz Morales | Unerasable Memories

The artist discusses Lucharemos Hasta Anular la Ley, a piece that blends reality and fiction to get to the essence of popular demonstrations

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Rosângela Rennó | Unerasable Memories

In a statement about her Vera Cruz (2000), the Brazilian artist makes considerations on her first video work, fourteen years after its production

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Jonathas de Andrade | Unerasable Memories

The artist discusses the video Projeto Pacífico (2010), which creates fictions alluding to the War of the Pacific, to Pinochet’s dictatorial regime and to the 2010 earthquake in Chile

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Agustín Pérez Rubio | Unerasable Memories

The curator comments on the concepts that underpinned the Unerasable Memories exhibition, the importance of the Videobrasil Collection and the role of eyewitness accounts in the construction of history

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