Politics Of (Un)Document
Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: This essay discusses the experimental forms of visual representation in the work of the Argentinean photographer Seba Kurtis. His work portrays several migrations from the southern to northern hemispheres using “flawed” devices and other heterodox resources that extend the limits of the concepts of record and representation, and their relation with technology. The technical device and security device, seen from a biopolitical perspective, intertwine in Kurtis' photographic works, producing what we define as “flawed experience” and “people without identity”, which constitute the illegal immigrant condition. Photography becomes a form of resistance and a necessarily veiled memory of a diaspora marked by its growing illegalization, in opposition to the record and control of state devices.
Source: Interventions
Authors: Agustín Berti, Andrea Torrano
Institution: Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1781785758