MEMORY, MELANCHOLY AND NOSTALGIA: SOBRE JON MIRANDE EN GDANSK

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Los pasados días 17 y 18 de septiembre de 2015 la Universidad de Gdansk (Polonia) celebró la cuarta “Interdisciplinary Memory Conference”, bajo el título “Memory, Melancholy and Nostalgia”. En estas jornadas las ponencias ofrecidas por investigadorxs de universidades de todo el mundo se dividen en cuatro bloques: literatura, arte, cine y experiencia personal y social. MHLI también ha participado en dichas jornadas con la ponencia titulada:

NOSTALGIA AGAINST MELANCHOLY: ARTISTIC CORPOREAL REPRESENTATIONS OF THE ETERNAL RETURN AS A SOLUTION. A COMPARATIVE APPROACH TO THE WORK OF JON MIRANDE AND BALTHAZAR KLOSSOWSKI

A continuación un breve resumen de la ponencia:

As the anthropologists David Hicks and Margaret A. Gwynn state (1995), the greatest of all human misfortunes is death. Even if human beings try to avoid it, their intellects oblige them to accept its inevitability. Mircea Eliade (1951) mentioned the antihistoric and nostalgic myth of the eternal return to a divine in illo tempore as a philosophy created by archaic human beings to abolish concrete real time. After stating that, from 17th century on, the idea of progress and linear time increased to the detriment of the cyclical time, M. Eliade suggests that it would be interesting to study the solutions that 20th century human beings would develop to deal with the anguish caused by this change of philosophy. in illo tempore and created by mixing memory and imagination. We will be working particularly in the field of literature and art, analysing the corporeal representations that symbolize this idea through visual and literary images. Our departure point will be the propaganda imagery of German National Socialism, the novel Haur besoetakoa (1970) written by the Parisian born writer of Basque origin Jon Mirande (1925-1970) and the paintings of the Parisian born painter of Polish origin Balthazar Klossoski (1908-2001). On the basis of those works, we will use the comparative approach of art and anthropology to interpret the common value of different artistic corporeal representations: the beginnings or childhood, both individual and collective, and show the need to abolish concrete real time eternally returning to them through art.

Hona hemen kongresuaren web orrialdea: http://memorynostalgia.ug.edu.pl/