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DIAS, Susana Oliveira. Inhuman listening: whispers of a life that cannot be represented by an archivist cry... LTP [online]. 2014, vol.32, n.62, pp.155-167. ISSN 2317-0972.

Intense sounds and constant noises are strongly emitted by photographs and genetic mappings that are embedded in a contemporary movement - including arts and sciences - that wants to claim: archiving is non-disappearing! As Gilles Deleuze states, however, “when power takes life as its object or goal, resistance to power begins invoking life, and turns it against power itself” (Deleuze, 2005a, p.124). Accepting the invitation of this philosopher and exercising inhuman listening, being capable of hearing the screams that utter something impossible, intolerable and precarious: the testimony of the missing. They generate the disappointment that allows us to see something that is unrepresentable in images, words and sounds. For José Gil, the emptiness, the difference, the unrepresentable, would open tensions, would not allow fulfilment, but an infinite movement of forces “in which the possible is reunited to infinity” (Gil, 2005, p.32). These are the thoughts that I want to expand on connections with Library of Mistakes, by the artist Walmor Corrêa, and Arquivo para uma obra acontecimento, by Suely Rolnik, in order to consider how these works are invented from within an archivist’s cry. They do not refuse, nor do they denounce the files. They also do not adhere to them. They promote a vital void from the archivist policy, transforming it into an object of experimentation. They create whispering surfaces, subtracting the force of death and memory of files and extracting life that is part of the archivist’s own strength. A life that takes place just like the ability of resisting of the force itself. We hear a sea...

Keywords : Archive; Image; Disappearance; Experimentation.

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