Let nothing be lost. Minimum notes on Cairo's interruptions and interventions

Abstract

The following article sets out to review some interventions made by the visual and audiovisual artist Cairo, in the city of Córdoba in 2019. These subtle gestures with which the public sphere intervenes are the living record of a queer / cuir life, its precariousness and performativity. It operates as a kind of archive of feelings (Ann Cvetkovich, 2018) that thinks and constructs time and territory, and reveals some modulations between politics and affections. In turn, these interventions represent an act of historical reparation (in Benjamin’s terms), insofar as they recover snippets of a queer/cuir life (especially those that do not fit in definitions and labels already elaborated), uniting with a tie a singular history and a collective history. Cairo's gesture as an artist is marked in turning queer lives part of an archive, rescuing them from possible oblivion and with it, returning to memory a form of justice.