MATERIALITY AND MEMORY IN THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF AN FORMER CLANDESTINE DETENTION CENTER AS A SPACE OF REMEMBRANCE

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María Belén Olmos

Abstract

The work with architectures linked to acts of violence, death and disappearance has a complexity on its own. In the case of former clandestine detention centers in our country, this complexity led to many debates and discussions about how to carry out the institutionalization of “Espacios para la Memoria”, remembrance spaces in these places by developing interventions that respect the material characteristics of the architectures while allowing the memory construction.

With the objective of analyze the definitions constructed in relation to materiality and its link with the construction of remembrance in the case of the former clandestine detention center Virrey Cevallos in Buenos Aires, in this article we take into consideration the conservation and restoration tasks carried out, the emerging tensions and the spatial sectorizations that are configured. How do you work with the materiality of the former clandestine detention center? Which are the strategies assumed since the intervention in its materiality? Or in any case, what aspects are considered to define an intervention as such? These are some of the questions that the article intends to answer based on the analysis of interviews carried out with workers of this memorial site.

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MATERIALITY AND MEMORY IN THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF AN FORMER CLANDESTINE DETENTION CENTER AS A SPACE OF REMEMBRANCE. (2019). Astrolabio, 22, 16-44. https://doi.org/10.55441/1668.7515.n22.19207
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María Belén Olmos, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani - Universidad de Buenos Aires

Lic. en Sociología por la Universidad de Buenos Aires y Profesora de Enseñanza Secundaria, Normal y Especial en Sociología por la misma casa de estudios. Maestranda en Sociología de la Cultura y Análisis Cultural por el Instituto de Altos Estudios Sociales de la Universidad Nacional de San Martín -tesis en proceso de evaluación- y Doctoranda en Ciencias Sociales por la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Se desempeña como Becaria Interna Doctoral de CONICET en el Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani. Cuenta con experiencia docente universitaria y antecedentes en investigación en diversos proyectos UBACyT y de Reconocimiento Institucional.

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MATERIALITY AND MEMORY IN THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF AN FORMER CLANDESTINE DETENTION CENTER AS A SPACE OF REMEMBRANCE. (2019). Astrolabio, 22, 16-44. https://doi.org/10.55441/1668.7515.n22.19207