With Constanza Ramírez Molano and Luis C. Sotelo
Held in Spanish with consecutive interpretation by Franklin R. Bonivento.
This event will take the form of a conversation in which Colombian artist and researcher Constanza Ramírez Molano presents three of her recent works. The dialogue will be moderated by Luis C. Sotelo, director of the Acts of Listening Lab at Concordia University.
The conversation will feature:
• VIVIFICAR (2015) — a performance that asks What is enforced disappearance? Presented as an orchestra in a shopping mall in Bogotá, the piece makes visible the crime of enforced disappearance in Colombia through the contrast between everyday public space and collective artistic expression.
• Volver a pasar por el corazón (2018) — a project that invites participants to identify with those who have been disappeared by engaging with their musical tastes, transforming memory into an intimate and shared listening experience.
• Subversiones (2020) — an exhibition hosted in the Virtual Memory Gallery presenting fourteen stories of enforced disappearance in Colombia. “Fourteen stories of courage, Colombians who inhabit the world deprived of a body but not of a soul.” These narratives, told by family members of the disappeared who were forced into exile for seeking their loved ones, explore what it means to continue the search from afar.
Constanza Ramírez Molano is a Colombian artist, researcher, and producer whose work explores the intersections of art, psychoanalysis, and memory. She develops artistic and audiovisual projects that give symbolic form to experiences of violence, with a particular focus on enforced disappearance in Colombia. She holds a degree in Community Social Pedagogy from the Pontifical Javeriana University in Bogotá. She is a founding member of the « Otras Voces » association. Through her collaborations with organizations of families of victims of enforced disappearance, she has supported communication and outreach strategies that use art to make this crime visible and to reflect on its impact on society as a whole. Her artistic practice includes works such as the video installation « Doble Oficio por la Entrega Digna, » (Bogotá, 2012) the performance « Vivificar, » (Bogotá, 2015) and the acts of memory « Volver a pasar por el corazón: la banda sonora de los desaparecidos en Colombia. » (Bogotá, 2018). She has also co-created the campaign « Aquí falta alguien » with the International Committee of the Red Cross, developed the digital memory space « Historia de Memorias, » directed the exhibition « Voces desde la otra orilla » (2021) at the Virtual Art Gallery, and produced the documentary « a-bordando la memoria » (Bogotá, 2023). She is currently responsible for the communications area of the « Otras Voces »
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LOCATION
In-person in LB-1042 (ALLab), COHDS
COHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
