Greenleaf Scholar-In-Residence, Irene Depetris Chauvin, published “A Wandering Archive: Super 8, Music and Temporality in Avanti popolo (Brazil, 2012)” in Revista Iberoamericana

Irene Depetris Chauvin, Greenleaf Scholar-In-Residence, has published the article “A Wandering Archive: Super 8, Music and Temporality in Avanti popolo (Brazil, 2012),” which is part of the Special Dossier “Between Public and Private. On the Uses of the Archive in Contemporary Latin American Visual Arts” from the last issue of Revista Iberoamericana (Berlin).  

Access the article here: https://journals.iai.spk-berlin.de/index.php/iberoamericana/article/view/3087/2617 
 
Abstract: Avanti popolo, a film feature, that uses Super 8 mm images supposedly shot by a young Brazilian who was disappeared by the military dictatorship in the 70s. Along with this footage, the film constructs a sonic archive through a radio program, records, and CDs. This mass of sound, in relation to the images, points both to a “structure of feeling” typical of a generation and to its destabilization. If images and sounds recorded in obsolete technologies lead us to consider the materiality and survival of an archive, by moving from the private to the public sphere, from documentary to fiction, the archive of images and sounds does not constitute itself as a set of fixed elements, but it is produced in the transitory convergence of wandering materials. Thus, the tensions between the visual and sound materials make it possible to problematize the status and constitution of an archive based on dislocation and negotiation, both of meaning and sensations in relation to the past. 
  
This research was part of a collaborative grant project “Políticas del archivo en el audiovisual latinoamericano: regímenes escópicos y prácticas de lo audible en la conformación de sentidos históricos contemporáneos”, in collaboration with Dra. Natalia Taccetta from the University National of the Arts. The objective of this research group was to evaluate the conceptions around the notion of archive existing in the field of Latin American audiovisual and philosophy of history, especially contemplating the relationship between audiovisual production and the shaping of historical meanings about contemporaneity.  

Take a look to the other articles of this collective endeavor at https://journals.iai.spk-berlin.de/index.php/iberoamericana/issue/view/144