The Body as Manifestation of Memory

Abstract

The understood as patrimony puts to test notions dealing with memory, representation and the itself. All of them are concepts that articulate this research in order to think the place from where we look -art history and the museum as viewing mechanisms-. Also, we will examine how expressions are understood and appropriated from an individual, collective and symbolic perspective. What concepts and understandings emerge from the relations between the (contemporary dance approach), art history (paintings), the museum (as a viewing mechanism) and the notion of patrimony? And, in which sense they make us reflect on contemporary art practices that are concerned with matters, space, experience and society? Index Terms—Art piece, body, dance, memory, museum. I. I NTRODUCTION My own approach to the subject of cartographies of the body is an attempt to reopen discussions related with the way art history has been practiced and written in the western tradition. In his book Art History after Modernism (2003), Belting Hans, incites to review the traditional discourses and approaches typical of western thoughts about art history. According to him, they impede us from looking at, for example, the reaction on this tradition from the artistic contemporary practice. These new endeavors to exercise and write art history inevitably have to recognize and review contemporary art manifestations; therefore this exploration begins with an encounter with the La La La human Steps 1