Al Lado, Afuera. // Beside, Outside.: The Performance of Solidarity between Archive and Repertoire in Guatemala and Canada

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dc.contributor.advisorMarchessault, Janine Michele
dc.creatorHeyn-Jones, Zoe Amelia
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-21T13:51:49Z
dc.date.available2018-11-21T13:51:49Z
dc.date.copyright2018-07-05
dc.date.issued2018-11-21
dc.date.updated2018-11-21T13:51:49Z
dc.degree.disciplineVisual Arts
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractMy research-creation dissertation investigates the question 'how are human rights enacted/performed? by examining solidarity activism in Guatemala and the hemispheric networks that enable it. The essay film al lado, afuera. // beside, outside. (2018, 21:12 min.), a synthesis of interviews with contemporary activists looks at human rights accompanimentthe process of situating oneself as an unarmed volunteer, assuming a physical presence alongside social activists who are victims of political threats, in order to dissuade violence, bear witness, and activate international solidarity networks. The performatic repertoire of accompaniment activism is explored upon the backdrop of the LAWG (Latin American Working Group)s collection of solidarity documents (1965-1997) and a large wall drawing that maps my research on networks of solidarity activism, thereby contextualizing this little-known embodied activist practice and exploring entanglements between the material archive and the ephemeral repertoire. Solidarity movement ephemera and a series of posters, created from graphic and textual elements of selected LAWG documents, highlight the material and historical foundation of todays accompaniment activism in Guatemala. By continuing to scan these documents in the gallery space as a durational performance throughout the exhibition, I highlight the labour performed in solidarity activism, and the change-of-state from paper materials to digital files, thereby mirroring of the trajectory from pre-Internet campaigns of letter-writing, information bulletins, flyers and posters, etcetera to todays digital forms of solidarity mobilization, and the various temporalities of solidarity. In transforming the collection from a material to a digital archive, I am creating an open source online repository of these crucial materials, as well as a gallery installation that highlights the aesthetics and materiality of pre-Internet solidarity activism, posing the question how does the materiality of solidarity evidenced in the LAWG collection work in tandem with embodied performances of solidarity activism?
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/35555
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectPerforming arts
dc.subject.keywordsSolidarity
dc.subject.keywordsGuatemala
dc.subject.keywordsCanada
dc.subject.keywordsResearch-creation
dc.subject.keywordsInstallation
dc.subject.keywordsArchive
dc.subject.keywordsPerformance
dc.subject.keywordsVideo
dc.subject.keywordsPosters
dc.subject.keywordsEphemera
dc.subject.keywordsScanning
dc.subject.keywordsSocially-engaged art
dc.subject.keywordsArte útil
dc.subject.keywordsPersonal positionality
dc.subject.keywordsEmbodiment
dc.subject.keywordsGrassroots histories
dc.subject.keywordsAesthetics
dc.subject.keywordsEthics
dc.subject.keywordsParticipant observation
dc.subject.keywordsAction research
dc.subject.keywordsLatin American studies
dc.subject.keywordsHemispheric studies
dc.subject.keywordsPolitical art
dc.subject.keywordsLAWG (Latin America Working Group)
dc.titleAl Lado, Afuera. // Beside, Outside.: The Performance of Solidarity between Archive and Repertoire in Guatemala and Canada
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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