Resilient Images. Figurations before the pain of others
The Culture of the image allows us, among other things, to study and analyze how and with what strategies the visual image affects us. It is precisely from the affect -or the affects- that the power of the visual can produce concrete changes in the social realm, promoting individual and collective memory, in resonance with the pain of others, the symbolic repair of traumas, the space of unresolved mourning, the representation of disappearance. It is for these reasons that this course is particularly effective in addressing some traumatic historical situations experienced both in Spanish-speaking America, from the colonization processes and after dictatorships; as in post-dictatorship Spain, thus expanding the idiomatic, ideological, aesthetic and conceptual horizons of the participants. We will immerse ourselves in the world of art, still images and the audiovisual to approach —from the aesthetic experience and from the readings— some historical and social processes that are a fundamental part of these cultures.(1 unit)