The Art of Memory
Dr. Arij Ouweneel

Tuesday 13.00 – 16.00 hours

Sometimes, policies and politics do not help. In Latin America there are countries with fine legislation on democracy, anti-racism, anti-sexism, anti-violence but with no improvements whatsoever on the state of democratic participation, racism, sexism or violence. Legislation and politics provide contexts that make things possible, but – contrary to typical Latin American legalism – changes need to be fed bottom-up and not top-down. As several social movements (feminism!) and the history of cultural changes have demonstrated in the past, occupying public spaces like parliaments, plazas, television shows, magazines, the Internet and the cinema with specific representations or performances organized bottom-up initiatives may be successful. Here the arts, from plastic arts to fiction cinema, television, literature, YouTube clips, music, canvas or mural painting, et cetera, may play a role.

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