Aarnoud Rommens & Rekall Design| Argentine & Belgica |
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The web project was made at the Jan van Eyck Academy Maastricht, by Aarnoud Rommens and Ingrid Stojnic (Rekall Design). This website deals with issues of visual narration, censorship, human rights, comics and remembrance in the context of the Argentine military dictatorship of 1976-83. The comics and illustrations featured on Camouflage Comics are all new; they were made between 2002 and 2005. However, there is a strange continuity between these comics and the handful of what one could call \"critical avant-garde\" comics published during or around the time of the military regime, by such pioneers as Alberto Breccia, Carlos Trillo, Hector Oesterheld, and others. Indeed, the two parallel timelines cannot be clearly separated. On the contrary, they continuously intersect, urging us to interpret the \'new\' in light of the \'old\' - and vice versa. The \"dirty war\" of 1976-83 still informs the \"structures of feeling\" of Argentine society at this very moment. This project is a reflection of/on this, on how the junta had affected and how it still, posthumously, produces after-effects in the shaping of discourse, arts, and social memory - the \"hearts and minds\" of contemporary Argentine society if you will. Camouflage Comics: Dirty War Images can be read as a specific manifestation of this memory-work; it is a space intended for the ongoing visual and verbal reflection on the legacies of a (recent) past. BIOGRAFIA DOS AUTORES: 1977 Kortrijk, BE. Studies 2001 - PhD studies. University of Leuven, BE.2000 - 2001 Advanced studies in Theory of Literature. University of British Columbia. Vancouver, CA. 1999 - 2000 Complementary studies in Cultural Studies. University of Leuven, BE. 1995 - 1999 MA English Literature and Linguistics (thesis on Thomas Pynchon). University of Leuven, BE. Professional activities 2003 - Freelance translator. 2001 - 2003 Member of staff [exhibitions of Lorenzo Mattotti (2001), Dupuy&Berberian (2002), Dave McKean (2003)]. Beeld Beeld Foundation. Leuven, BE. 2002 Researcher. Flemish Foundation for Literature (VFL). Antwerp, BE. 2000 Kafka in comics [exhibition and presentation of the FREON collective]. Now FREMOK - FRMK. Leuven, BE. Subsidies and the graphic novel [research project]. Beeld Beeld Foundation, Leuven, BE. Publications 2005 Comics in camouflage: Alberto Breccia and Guillermo Saccomanno's "William Wilson" as catalyst for memory. In: Poetics Today. Duke University Press, US. 2002 Sand in your eyes. In: Dirk De Geest & Anneleen Masschelein (Eds.), A homeless concept. Figures of the Unheimlich in 20th-century theory, literature, film and culture. Leuven, BE: Leuven University Press. 2000 Manga story-telling / showing. In: Image & Narrative, 1, August. Additional reviews in Image & Narrative, Poetics Today Lectures 2002 Comics exhibitions and the re-animation of the Flemish graphic novel. In: Comics & policy. Leuven, BE: Institute for Cultural Studies, University of Leuven. Remembering the future: Christopher Nolan's Memento. In: Sixth international conference on word & image. Hamburg, DE: University of Hamburg. |
