[spectre] W:MoRiA in Chicago

[art-messenger]

22 April - 1 May 2005 
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Version'05 Festival Chicago/USA
www.versionfest.org/version05/ <http://www.versionfest.org/version05/>
is presenting
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"Women: Memory of Repression in Argentina" (W:MoRiA)
<http://argentina.engad.org> 
a curatorial online environment 
created by Agricola de Cologne (Germany)
and co-curated by Raquel Partnoy (Argentina/USA).
 
(downloadable info also available as PDF 
<http://downloads.nmartproject.net/women_memory-of-repression.pdf> )
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W:MoRiA is referring to the thirty thousands of persons who disappeared during the military dictatorships of the 20th century in Argentina, a war of the military against the own population, a genocide, which is also called "Argentine holocaust".
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These disappeared persons were mainly members of a family like sons and fathers/husbands, intellectuals and different minded, but many of them also Jews.
Only the resistance of courageous women, the mothers, better known as "Mother of Plaza de Mayo" against the military regime changed the country profoundly by organising demonstrations in order to get the answers what happened to their sons and husbands.
Raquel Partnoy, herself one of these mothers is collaborating as a co-curator.
The project contains a number of authentic testimonies, a portrait of the Jewish family Partnoy who emigrated in the beginning of the 20th century from Europe to Argentina, a documentary which gives an idea how family structure were systematically destroyed while the military were ruling, further a number of young Argentine female New Media artists who deal with this traumatic memory manifested in their net based art works, curated by Agricola de Cologne, by name Irene Coremberg, Marina Zerbarini, Anahi Caceres and her Arte UNa network and Andamio Contiguo, an artists collaborative.
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During many decades only the demonstrations of the mothers kept vivid the memory of the disappeared, and most of the cases could not be cleared up until these days and remained a national trauma. Only these days and under more democratic conditions, there is slowly starting a general movement to reflect the period of the military juntas. 
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The genocide stands in one line with the genocide on the Jews in Nazi Germany, on the different minded in Stalinist Russia, the moslems in former Yugoslavia,
the intellectuals in Cambodia and many more. 
 
The project includes video lectures by Raquel Partnoy, 
text available also as PDF 
<http://downloads.nmartproject.net/Raquel_Partnoy_Lecture.pdf> 
and Anahi Caceres (Bueno Aires) 
Info about the latest ArteUNa contribution to W:MoRiA, 
"WALLS XXth - XXIst CENTURIES" 
are downloadable also as PDF 
<http://downloads.nmartproject.net/anahi-caceres_and_arteUna.pdf>
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If the project would like to give any message, then this:
What happened in Argentina must not happen again, neither in this country nor at any other place on the globe.
 
W:MoRiA 
<http://argentina.engad.org> 
was recently included in Rhizome Artbase (New York) 
<http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?31723>
and the latest 
ZKM (Karlsruhe/Germany) exhibition "Making Things Public" 
<http://makingthingspublic.zkm.de> 
respectively its online part, entiled "FAIR ASSEMBLY" 
<http://makingthingspublic.zkm.de/fa/Publicproject.do> 
curated by Steve Dietz 
 
W:MoRiA 
<http://argentina.engad.org> 
is also corporate part of [R][R][F]2005--->XP 
<http://rrf2005.newmediafest.org>, global networking project 
and belongs to 
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne 
www.nmartproject.net <http://www.nmartproject.net> 
the experimental platform for Art and NewMedia from Cologne/Germany. 
new!! Weblog <http://weblog.nmartproject.net> 
 
info & contacts: 
info at nmartproject.net <mailto:info at nmartproject.net> 
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broad bandwidth DSL Internet connection 
Flash 7 plug-in