When history is a story: Intergenerational memory transmission in Poland and Chile
A thesis project undertaken as part of the joint degree in Theater, Dance and Media and Comparative Literature under the guidance of Tania Bruguera, Dr Debra Levine and Alexander Hartley at Harvard College.
Street-art and graffiti around Santiago de Chile remembering the 2019-2020 protests.
The cemetery in Zielenice village, the burial site of my grandfather's family
A rehearsal of the play "Agoté today la nostalgia" directed by the group La Laura Palmer with the students of Departamento de Teatro U. de Chile
Photos, documents, letters and other writings collected as part of the familial archive.
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Having grown up with a grandfather who almost compulsively shared with me stories from his life, who repeated the most painful ones over and over again, as if driven by a need to let them out, proved a fruitful ground for a dramaturgy that looked at the compulsion of repetition as pedagogy and how we formulate history in relationship to familial memory. Attending required history classes at school, and then coming back to family reunions where that same history suddenly became palpable and relevant in the mouth of my grandpa, made me attuned to the way memory is translated into history and vice-versa. Some of the language he used repeatedly; some stories were told more often than others and some details were changed as the political landscape shifted.