{"id":1591,"date":"2006-11-01T20:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-01T20:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/2006\/11\/political-art-and-justice.html"},"modified":"2006-11-01T20:18:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-01T20:18:00","slug":"political-art-and-justice-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=1591","title":{"rendered":"Political Art and Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crassh.cam.ac.uk\/\">CRASSH<\/a> event was by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldsmiths.ac.uk\/departments\/sociology\/staff\/bell.php\">Vikki Bell<\/a> discussing Art memory and politics from Buenos Aires and Belfast. She mainly focused on Art and the disappeared ones in Argentina . This was one of the stunning pictures she showed.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/image0_thumb-1.png\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" width=\"240\"\/>\u00a0by Nicolas Guagnini\u00a0&#8220;<em>In this work, which I have named 30,000 (the number of disappeared in Argentina), I used the picture of my father, a journalist who covered national and international politics. he was disappeared on December 12, 1977. As the spectator moves around the image, my father\u2019s face appears and disappears<\/em>.&#8221; (Picture and words from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndmoa.com\/PastEx\/Desappeared\/Nicolas\/index.html\">North Dakota Museum of art<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>She also had images from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fernandotraverso.com\/\">Fernando Traverso<\/a> &#8220;350 bicycles&#8221; as apparently the first sign of the disappeared was that their bicycles were abandoned in the streets.He &#8220;<em>paints 350 bicycles all over his home city of Rosario, Argentina, one for each person disappeared.<\/em><a atomicselection=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/image05.png\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" height=\"142\" src=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/image0_thumb1.png\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" width=\"240\"\/><\/em><\/a><em> He photographs the graffiti bicycles and mounts them in the exhibitions as scenic &#8220;postcards<\/em>.&#8221; Very moving indeed. (picture from his site).<\/p>\n<p>She also went into some detail on the role of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ESMA\">ESMA<\/a> (Escuela de Mechanica de la Armada) although what happened within its walls had nothing to do with engineering in the navy (400 out of 5000 survived). Wonderful expression &#8220;Taking photo&#8217;s\u00a0is about decisions&#8221;\u00a0 (it was a pun about taking as in clicking and taking as in stealing) also spoke about Carlos Filomina and his umbrella hand and the fact that the junta didn?t get his paintings.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday CRASSH event was by Vikki Bell discussing Art memory and politics from Buenos Aires and Belfast. She mainly focused on Art and the disappeared ones in Argentina . This was one of the stunning pictures she showed.\u00a0by Nicolas Guagnini\u00a0&#8220;In this work, which I have named 30,000 (the number of disappeared in Argentina), I used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}