Archive of the Revolt: from Awakening to the Virtual Museum for the Chilean Case

Abstract

Starting from the centrality of the archive as an aesthetic, historiographical and political problem, contemporary discussions propose to review its conformation and the operations that are put into operation in the archive. It seems unquestionable that the archive is linked to documents and memory, but also to practices of knowledge, representation, exclusion and selectivity of past events. We are interested in addressing the way in which the notion of archive is also the one that allows us to problematize contemporary visuality, functioning as an inexorable scopic regime to know the events of the present, such as the Chilean revolt of 2019. For this we will take the proposal of the English historian Griselda Pollock around the “virtual museum” that draws on the notion of archive and thinks about the relationship with the past based on fragmentation and discontinuity.