The Legacy of Ulises Carrion for Contemporary Literary Representations of Violence and Peace in Latin America
We warmly invite you to the talk of Daniel Sarmiento as part of the Peace and Mobilities Project on Thursday, 05 March at 17:30 at at H401, Herengracht 401, 1017 BP Amsterdam (entrance at Beulingstraat).
Even today, Mexican artist Ulises Carrión (1941-1989), who was naturalized in the Netherlands, remains a niche artist. During his years in Amsterdam, when he ran the ephemeral yet world-renowned gallery and bookshop Other Books and So at the Herengracht 259 with other colleagues, he quietly planted the seeds of an artistic revolution currently taking place in Latin American art and literature. This talk invites you to rediscover Carrión by retracing his steps in the Netherlands and exploring how his ideas have influenced contemporary artists’ representations of violence. The talk is the result of research conducted during a residency supported by the European Union’s Peace and Mobilities research project, a scientific endeavor studying conflict and violence with an interdisciplinary approach. The project begins with a methodological inversion of traditional assumptions. Rather than starting with forms of violence from which peace emerges, we will focus on the peace proposals offered by people on the move.
RSVP: mail@h401.org
Meet our speaker:
Daniel Sarmiento (born Bogotá, 1997) completed an undergraduate degree in Literary Studies at the National University of Colombia before going on to complete a master’s degree in Latin American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. He has published several articles on contemporary Latin American poetry and prose covering a variety of topics. He is also a member of the National University of Colombia’s ONALME research group, with whom he participates in the Peace and Mobilities project. He currently lives in Berlin, where he co-curates and co-organizes the Latin American literature festival Barrio | Bairro Berlin.
Herengracht 401 assisted with the research as partner of the Peace & Mobilities Consortium.
For all partners and more information about this project go to: Peace & Mobilities website.
* Peace & Mobilities Co-funded by the European Union *
