Rewriting Revolutionary Myths: Photography in Castro’s Cuba and Tania Bruguera’s Tatlin’s Whisper#6
Photography was a key medium for creating, spreading, and cementing myths about the Cuban Revolution and its leaders. In the first part of this essay, I’ll explore several iconic images as well as responses to these pictures, all parts of a Cuban “cross-national memory discourse” (cf. Quiroga, 2005)...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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MI-AN Publishing
2014-11-01
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| Series: | Kultura (Skopje) |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.cultcenter.net/index.php/culture/article/view/76 |
| Summary: | Photography was a key medium for creating, spreading, and cementing myths about the Cuban Revolution and its leaders. In the first part of this essay, I’ll explore several iconic images as well as responses to these pictures, all parts of a Cuban “cross-national memory discourse” (cf. Quiroga, 2005). Walter Benjamin’s media philosophy can help in developing insights about the functioning of these photographs. In the second part of the paper, I turn to Tania Bruguera’s piece <em>Tatlin</em><em>’s Whisper#6</em> (staged at the 10<sup>th</sup> Havana Biennial in 2009), which radically rewrites the poetics of the images and aspires to create a sense of participation and direct involvement. |
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| ISSN: | 1857-7717 1857-7725 |