Leviatán. Performative lecture with Hebert Rodríguez
Date: Wednesday, March 5
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Format: In-person
Venue: Teatro MAMM
Free admission
In the form of a documentary fiction, the artist fuses cinematic montage, staging, journalistic narration and popular music in a live arts proposal that reflects on some of the strategies that different drug lords, rulers, landowners and other powerful Colombians use to exercise their governance — especially the symbolic force they establish by mounting their horses. There is an artifice at work in the man-horse articulation, and the force of its representation is what sustains their power. Like a mythical beast that embodies strength and barbarism, this fusion updates some of the ways we read power in Colombia.
About Hebert Rodriguez
Colombian visual artist, writer and researcher. He currently lives and works in Medellín. He studied Social Communication and Journalism at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana and holds a master’s degree in Visual and Fine Arts from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Medellín campus). He is interested in reflecting on how mass-circulation images (those derived from cinema, photography, media) affect culture, are attributed a category of proof and create imaginaries. He also explores through the word other possible forms of narrative, of fiction as a strategy for constructing other discourses and counter-narratives. These reflections materialize in diverse ways, most notably through video, installation and performatic repertoires.