Memory, Victims, and Representation of the Colombian Conflict

该项目探讨了哥伦比亚60年冲突中的冲突，正义和受害者的代表性。它着重于这些主题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出。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，并最终将其纳入这些账户。该项目将博物馆视为展示集体记忆和记录冲突的场所，同时也是提供转化或抵制的潜在机制，因此将深入了解这些做法，评估其展示的有效性，并为政策制定和公众意识做出贡献。第一，代理，即受害者本身在这些代表中被赋予积极的地位。第二，性别问题，这一问题在对哥伦比亚内战的报道中常常被忽视。我们的假设是，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侧重于男性行为者，只有通过突出这些被遗忘的声音才能讲述完整的故事，并最终充分实现冲突转化。作为一个起点，该项目将通过对国家博物馆和国家历史记忆中心所描述的各种表现形式进行详细的视觉和文字分析，评估哥伦比亚在博物馆中表现受害者的现有做法，并将根据诸如代理、观点和目光随后，该项目将致力于发现和记录替代历史和替代记忆，并将提出新的认可这些受害者的形式。该项目以妇女为重点，将分析致力于妇女受害者、记忆和抵抗的非政府组织数字平台上的代表形式。在这里，我们的分析将再次集中在机构，观点和目光的关键问题，并将记录任何新的和创新的代表形式，考虑到受害者自己的声音和需求。我们还将深入分析历史纪念中心收集的文件，以吸取妇女的经验，我们将为专门从事人权研究的学生设计和举办一个道德讲习班，随后，这些研究人员将开展以哥伦比亚博亚卡地区农村妇女和农民妇女为重点的研究项目。然后，我们将与这些女性受害者在共同创作研讨会上密切合作，以开发一种新的互动艺术品，讲述这些女性受害者的故事，并提供关于冲突的新视角，使这些女性能够拥有自己的叙述。这一互动艺术品将成为一个混合媒体巡回展览的一部分，该展览将首先在博戈塔展出，随后在全国各地的其他地点展出。虽然这件艺术品将是特定于哥伦比亚的情况下，我们的目标是画出，在一个工具包的形式，如何发现可以适应其他情况下，从而开发尚未开发的潜力，数字艺术及其在冲突转化的作用。在整个项目中，我们还将与建议创建哥伦比亚拟议的新记忆博物馆的团队密切合作，旨在塑造其实践，并为创建更有效和以受害者为中心的叙事做出贡献。

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.