Marcelo Brodsky

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“Memories/Correspondences”

A lecture by photographer

Marcelo Brodsky

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

7:00 PM

New York University

King Juan Carlos Center

53 Washington Square Park South

-between Thompson and Sullivan Streets-

(picture ID required at the door)

Marcelo Brodsky trained as a photographer at the International Center of Photography in Barcelona during his exile in the 1980s. In 1997, he edited and exhibited the photographic essay Buena Memoria  (Good Memory), consisting of photos, video and texts that show the personal and collective evolution of a class of the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, marked by two “missing” students due to state terrorism. Between 1997 and 2007, the exhibition was presented over a hundred times in 20 countries, by itself and as part of other artistic projects.

Buena Memoria has been published in Spanish, English, Italian and German.  In 2003, Brodsky edited Memory Works two years later published Memory Under Construction, which gathers art pieces and texts that deal with the issues of the representation and remembrance of state terrorism in Argentina. In 2007, he participated as co-curator in Body Politics/Corpolíticas organized by the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics in Buenos Aires.

Brodsky is a member of the Buena Memoria Human Rights organization and the Pro-Monument to the Victims of Terrorism Commission, which supervises and coordinates the construction of the Memory Park and of the Monument to the victims of the Argentine dictatorship. His work seeks to communicate to the new generations the experience of state terrorism in Argentina in a different way, based on emotion and sense experience, such that the transmission of it will generate a real and profound knowledge based on dialogue among the different generations affected state terror and its consequences.

Reception to follow.

Sponsored by NYU's Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics in collaboration with the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, the Department of Photography and Imaging at NYU, and Habitus: A Diaspora Journal.