Suely Rolnik's keynote address : Furor de archivo = The furor of the archive.

Video documentation of Suely Rolnik 's keynote address, 'Furor de archivo, ' presented as a part of the 7th Encuentro of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, held in August of 2009 in Bogotá, Colombia, under the title 'Staging Citizenship: Cultural Rights in the Americas.' This 10-day event brought together activism, scholarship, and art around the themes of legacies, memories, struggles, and frontiers of citizenship. With an introduction by Francisco Montaña, Suely Rolnik's keynote discusses how over the last two decades, a compulsion to archive has seized a large part of the globalized territory of art. Among the privileged objects of analysis are Latin American artistic proposals developed during the 1960s and 70s. What are the politics of desire driving these initiatives and their modes of presentation? Suely Rolnik has degrees in Sociology and Philosophy from the Université Paris VIII and a degree in Psychology from the Université Paris VII. Her work is located in a terrain transversalized by philosophy, clinical practice, politics, and aesthetics and takes the form of research, writing, teaching, treatment, and clinical practice strictu senso. She is the author, among other books, of Micropolítica: Cartografías del deseo (in collaboration with Félix Guattari). Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics