Arte y memoria colectiva. Representaciones de la militancia política y la represión de la década del '70 en Bahía Blanca (Argentina), 1995-2009.

The last military dictatorship (1976-1983) executed a systematic plan for the disappearring of people, one of its primary objects being stop the development of various political projects that were being held by various lef-tist groups in the ‘60’s . One of the military regime’s major results was to seal all political and social debates that had spawned in the previous years. In this regard, their success was such that even today the processes of shaping collective memory of Argentina recent history still entail contradictions. The underlying difficulties are related to the possibility of elaborating social representations able to recover these complex past experiences, and therefore, useful to understand the features and goals of the repressive operations that aimed at eliminating them. This paper analyzes the processes of shaping collective memory through a case study: productions created by relatives and friends of victims of the military rule in Bahía Blanca (1995-2000). By means of resources, techniques and spaces drawn from visual and performing arts, they have elaborated and spread out certain views regarding the period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]