Riethof, Marieke 
ORCID: 0000-0002-8297-5471, Smith, Richard G, Redden, Andrew and Ogass Bilbao, Claudio
(2023)
Preserving Memories of Cultural Resistance in Chile: The Archival Process of Tallersol’s Poster Collection.
Displaced Voices: A Journal of Migration, Archives and Cultural Heritage, 3 (2).
Abstract
The Tallersol Cultural Centre was founded in Santiago de Chile in 1977 by a collective of artists, and cultural and political activists who resisted military repression by creating space for cultural freedom under the Pinochet dictatorship. They produced posters, pamphlets, and other records to support the campaigns of human rights organisations, political bodies, social movements in Santiago’s shantytowns, opposition cultural centres in the city and its popular neighbourhoods, trades unions, religious groups, among others. The posters that this project proposes to digitise address themes such as political disappearances and imprisonment, diverse human rights violations, women’s and Indigenous rights, youth resistance, counterculture as well as international solidarity. The purpose of this article is to discuss the first stage of the project during which our team prepared a sample of 150 posters for online publication. The next stage involves the digitisation of the full collection of approximately 6.000 posters. Because the project is collaborative and community-based, we highlight the importance of working with Tallersol’s political and organisational principles, which has in turn enriched our collective understanding of grassroots opposition in Chile.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Divisions: | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Histories, Languages and Cultures |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Mar 2024 08:10 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Mar 2024 08:10 |
| Open Access URL: | https://resistancerightsandrefuge.uk/ogass-smith-r... |
| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3179261 |
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