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Publication Launch and Film Screenings
Friday, April 11, 2014, Launch at 5:00 p.m., Screenings at 7:00 p.m.

The Orientation Room (M101)

Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, 2 West 13 Street at 5th Avenue, New York, NY

I, a publication of texts and visual works from artists, scholars, and writers will be presented at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center on Friday, April 11 at 6:30 p.m. A reading of Borges’ “Funes The Memorious” inspired contributions that intermingle perspectives of a singular “I” and the collective, expanding the dialogue of the exhibition. I includes the work of Andrés Felipe Torres, Alex Walton, Avi Alpert and Sreshta Rit Premnath, Carlos Labbé, Gavan Blau, Heather M. O’Brien and Andrew Freeman, Hernán Rivera, Isaac Pool, Ilyn Wong, Jessica Posner, Joen Vedel, Kaitlynn Redell and Sara Jiménez, Arrow MacGowan, Maricruz Alarcón, Margarita Sánchez, Matthew C. Wilson, Thom Donovan, and Vincent Vulsma. On the same evening there will be a screening of Ignacio Agüero’s No Olvidar, Camila Guzmán’s The Sugar Curtain, and Chen Chieh Jen’s Military Court and Prison. Focusing on events that occurred during the last decades of the Cold War, these documentaries illuminate the political role of personal memory within the constitution of historical narratives.

No Olvidar by Ignacio Agüero
1982, 30 min

Filmed clandestinely during Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile, No Olvidar chronicles the experience of the women of the Maureira family, who after six years of not knowing where their loved ones were, found their bodies buried in a limestone mine in Lonquén. No Olvidar is one of the first documents of the disappearances and the ongoing assassinations ordered by Pinochet’s regime.

The Sugar Curtain by Camila Guzmán
2005, 82 min

In this autobiographical portrait, the filmmaker revisits the singular experience of growing up in La Havana during the golden era of the revolution. It is also a lament for the end of that dream, which began to fizzle after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Highlighting the contrasting fortunes of the Cuban Revolution over the last two decades, The Sugar Curtain offers a provocative historical perspective on one of the most significant turning point in the 20th Century history.

Military Court and Prison by Chen Chieh-Jen
2007 – 2008, 62 min

Originally commissioned by the Reina Sofia Museum, this two-part film responds to the Martial Law period in Taiwan. In the first part, the artist reflects his memories of the prison and military court that was near his home in Taipei, while the other represents the official vision of the government regarding the years of the dictatorship and Martial Law in Taiwan.

Additional support for the screening has been provided by Ignacio Agüero and Icarus Films.
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