From collecting an archive to artistic practice in the Intimal project: lessons learned from listening to a Colombian migrant women’s oral history archive
Ximena Alarcón,
Lucia Nikolaia López Bojorquez,
Olivier Lartillot,
Helga Flamtermesky
Affiliations
Ximena Alarcón
RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and MotionDepartment of Musicology, University of Oslo
Lucia Nikolaia López Bojorquez
RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and MotionDepartment of Musicology, University of Oslo
Olivier Lartillot
RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and MotionDepartment of Musicology, University of Oslo
Helga Flamtermesky
Commission of Truth, Memory and Reconciliation of Colombian Women in Diaspora
This paper describes a multidisciplinary encounter with oral testimony archives and their incorporation in the artistic research project INTIMAL. It explores ways in which to creatively listen to stories which might be emotionally challenging, and to create and sustain empathy with these disembodied voices, which contain a shared history as fissures of sixty years of violence. Keywords: listening; oral archives; retrieval; Colombian conflict.
