Tomorrow will be one week since I’ve come home and while I am happily living in the U.S, I don’t think there is something else that produces so much relief and belonging in my heart than the plane landing on Santiago´s Airport. First, mostly because I am still afraid of flying but at that point in my trip, the longest flight (USA-Chile) is over and I am able to take a break of spending 9 hours on a plane flying over South America.
Second, the mere idea of being in a place where everyone speaks your first language, where you can see and experience the same situations and places that you grew up with, it´s priceless. I honestly believe there is a hole in a person´s heart that can only be filled with those things that are familiar with. Those places and situations that shaped who they are.
It wasn´t easy to start compiling sources and information to get a grasp of the subject, but my father was able to help me a lot, mainly because he is interested on the subject himself. Having a sociologist/historian and political scientist as a father can come quite handy in these cases, not only by providing sources and material but to create a sense of familiarity on the topic. I honestly can´t remember a day that would go by in my house without discussing the military dictatorship. I am not saying this is a healthy way of living of course, but for good or bad is a reality that for this particular project comes useful.
In order to design the framework of this project, I am working with the following texts so far:
-Film and memory of the XX century and Sequence of Chile´s Memory both by Jacqueline Mouesca.
-Culture, Authoritarism and re-democratization in Chile by Garreton, Sosnowski and Subercaseux.
-Symbolic production. Theory and method of sociology in art by Nestor Garcia Canclini.
-A scholarly article by LeAnn Chapleau called: Chilean culture under Pinochet´s dictatorship, and a magazine article by Artalex: Memories of half a century.
May 18, almost a week after my arrival I will conduct my first interview with a local artist that lived and suffered the consequences of the dictatorship´s abuses. At the same time I am on hold with the rest of my contacts in Santiago: a director and several actors currently working in chilean theater. If successful ,these interviews will be conducted during the months of June or July.
I will like to close this entry with a very interesting phrase recover from the writings of Nestor García Canclini:
"The goal of studying aesthetics and art history can not be the piece itself, but the process of social circulation in which the meanings are constructed and explored"
From the cold and rainy South Chile,
Rossana Diaz.
Second, the mere idea of being in a place where everyone speaks your first language, where you can see and experience the same situations and places that you grew up with, it´s priceless. I honestly believe there is a hole in a person´s heart that can only be filled with those things that are familiar with. Those places and situations that shaped who they are.
It wasn´t easy to start compiling sources and information to get a grasp of the subject, but my father was able to help me a lot, mainly because he is interested on the subject himself. Having a sociologist/historian and political scientist as a father can come quite handy in these cases, not only by providing sources and material but to create a sense of familiarity on the topic. I honestly can´t remember a day that would go by in my house without discussing the military dictatorship. I am not saying this is a healthy way of living of course, but for good or bad is a reality that for this particular project comes useful.
In order to design the framework of this project, I am working with the following texts so far:
-Film and memory of the XX century and Sequence of Chile´s Memory both by Jacqueline Mouesca.
-Culture, Authoritarism and re-democratization in Chile by Garreton, Sosnowski and Subercaseux.
-Symbolic production. Theory and method of sociology in art by Nestor Garcia Canclini.
-A scholarly article by LeAnn Chapleau called: Chilean culture under Pinochet´s dictatorship, and a magazine article by Artalex: Memories of half a century.
May 18, almost a week after my arrival I will conduct my first interview with a local artist that lived and suffered the consequences of the dictatorship´s abuses. At the same time I am on hold with the rest of my contacts in Santiago: a director and several actors currently working in chilean theater. If successful ,these interviews will be conducted during the months of June or July.
I will like to close this entry with a very interesting phrase recover from the writings of Nestor García Canclini:
"The goal of studying aesthetics and art history can not be the piece itself, but the process of social circulation in which the meanings are constructed and explored"
From the cold and rainy South Chile,
Rossana Diaz.
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