Memory, Victims, and Representation of the Colombian Conflict

这个项目探讨了哥伦比亚60年冲突中的冲突、正义和受害者。它的重点是如何开始在哥伦比亚境内已经或正在开发的博物馆和官方展览中展示这些主题。它还询问了这些官方账户中尚未听到或代表的声音，并提出了记录这些声音的机制，并最终将它们整合到这些账户中。将博物馆视为展示集体记忆和记录冲突的空间，同时也提供潜在的变革或抵抗机制，该项目将提供对这些实践的见解，评估其表现的有效性，并为政策制定和公众意识做出贡献。该项目提出，有两个关键问题是利害攸关的：首先是机构问题，即受害者本身在这些陈述中被赋予积极的地位。其次是性别问题，这一点在哥伦比亚内战的报道中经常被忽视。我们的假设是，关于哥伦比亚长达60年的冲突的现有话语往往忽视了性别暴力，因为冲突的叙述往往集中在男性演员身上，只有把这些被遗忘的声音放在首位，才能讲述完整的故事，并最终完全实现冲突的转变。作为起点，该项目将通过对Museo Nacional[国家博物馆]和Centro Nacional de Memoria Histórica[国家历史记忆中心]中所描述的再现形式进行详细的视觉和文本分析，评估哥伦比亚在博物馆背景下再现受害者的现有做法，并将根据机构、观点和目光等关键问题对这些形式进行分类。随后，该项目将致力于揭示和记录另类历史和另类记忆，并将提出新的形式来识别这些受害者。该项目将以女性为重点，分析致力于女性受害者、记忆和抵抗的非政府组织在数字平台上的表现形式。在这里，我们的分析将再次集中在机构、观点和凝视的关键问题上，并将记录考虑到受害者自己的声音和需求的任何新的和创新的表现形式。我们还将对纪念中心Histórica收集的文件进行深入分析，以总结妇女的经验。我们将为专门研究人权的学生设计和举办一个伦理讲习班，随后，这些研究人员将开展以哥伦比亚博亚ac<e:1>地区农村和农村妇女为重点的研究项目。然后，我们将在共同创作研讨会上与这些女性受害者密切合作，以开发一种新的互动艺术作品，讲述这些女性受害者的故事，并为冲突提供新的视角，赋予这些女性权力，让她们拥有自己的叙述。这一互动艺术作品将成为混合媒体巡回展览的一部分，首先将在波哥大<e:1>展出，随后将在全国其他地方展出。虽然这个艺术作品将具体到哥伦比亚的环境中，但我们的目标是以工具包的形式，得出如何将发现适应其他环境，从而开发数字艺术尚未开发的潜力及其在冲突转型中的作用。在整个项目中，我们还将与为哥伦比亚拟议的新记忆博物馆提供建议的团队密切合作，旨在塑造其实践，并为创造更有效和以受害者为中心的叙述做出贡献。

This project explores representations of conflict, justice, and victims in Colombia's 60-year long conflict. It focuses on how these topics are starting to be represented in museums and official exhibitions that have been, or are in the process of, being developed within Colombia. It also interrogates the voices that are not yet heard or represented in these official accounts, and proposes mechanisms for recording these voices, and, ultimately, integrating them into these accounts. Conceiving of museums as spaces in which collective memories are represented, and in which conflict is documented, but also as providing potential mechanisms for transformation or resistance, the project will offer insights into these practices, evaluate the effectiveness of their representations, and contribute to policy-making and public awareness.The project proposes that there are two key issues at stake: firstly, that of agency, in the sense of the victims themselves being given active positions within these representations. Secondly, that of gender, which is often overlooked in accounts of Colombia's civil war. Our hypothesis is that existing discourses of the 60-year long conflict in Colombia have often overlooked gendered violence, since narratives of the conflict tend to focus on male actors, and that only by bringing to the fore these forgotten voices can the full story be told, and, ultimately, conflict transformation be fully enabled. As a starting point, the project will evaluate existing practices of representation of victims in Colombia in a museum context, through a detailed visual and textual analysis of the forms of representation as depicted in the Museo Nacional [National Museum], and in the Centro Nacional de Memoria Histórica [National Centre for Historical Memory], and will produce a classification of these as regards key issues such as agency, point of view, and the gaze. Subsequently, the project will work at uncovering and documenting alternative histories and alternative memory, and will offer new proposed forms of recognising these victims. Focussing on women, the project will analyse forms of representation on the digital platforms of NGOs dedicated to women victims, memory, and resistance. Here, our analysis will again focus on the key issues of agency, point of view, and the gaze, and will also document any new and innovative forms of representation that take into account the voices and needs of the victims themselves. We will also undertake an in-depth analysis of the documentation gathered by the Centro de Memoria Histórica to draw out women's experiences.We will devise and deliver an ethical workshop to research students specialising in Human Rights, and, subsequently, these researchers will undertake research projects focussing on rural and campesina women in the Boyacá region of Colombia. We will then work closely with these women victims in co-creation workshops, in order to develop a new, interactive artwork which will tell the story of these women victims, and offer new perspectives on the conflict, empowering these women to take ownership of their narrative. This interactive artwork will form part of a mixed-media travelling exhibition, which will be displayed in the first instance in Bogotá, and subsequently at other venues around the country. Although this artwork will be specific to the Colombian context, we aim to draw out, in the form of a toolkit, how findings could be adapted to other contexts, and so develop the as yet unexplored potential of digital art and its role in conflict transformation. Throughout the project, we will also work closely with the team advising the creation of Colombia's proposed new Museum of Memory, and aim to shape its practice, and contribute to the creation of more valid and victim-centric narratives.