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Alberto Gomez en la Casa Rosada, Buenos Aires
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Alberto Gomez is a political activist, artist, and writer of Indigenous Guaraní and settler Spanish descent from Corrientes, Argentina. During the Kirchernista era in Argentina (2003-15), he worked with national, regional, and local governmental organizations to advance rural development, social justice, and environmental issues. Since 2016, he has worked as a grassroots community organizer for rural and urban youth and as a key organizer of the Human Rights Commission of Corrientes, where he has played a central role in establishing a Space of Memory in the former military regiment, RI-9. Together with his long-term collaborator Dot Tuer, he has documented Spaces of Memory in Argentina and the cultural imaginaries of Corrientes through photography and testimonial writing. He is the co-author of El Golpe de estado en la provincia de Corrientes (La Plata, 2019) and currently is finishing a monograph on his experiences as a social activist and political prisoner during the 1970s and 1980s in Argentina. He is also undertaking a Master’s degree in Spaces of Memory (Diseño Institucional y Gestion de Sitios de Memoria) at Quilmes University in Buenos Aires. Gomez moved to Canada in the early 1980s as a political exile, and since the 2000s has divided his time between Corrientes and Toronto.
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Dot Tuer in front of Fidel Castro's tomb, Sanitago de Cuba
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Dot Tuer is a writer, curator, and cultural historian of Scottish settler descent from Toronto, Canada. Her scholarly and creative work explores the intersections of cultural memory, decolonial histories, and visual storytelling in Latin American and Canadian art, with a specific focus on performance, photography, and new media. She is the author of Mining the Media Archive (YYZ Books, 2006) and Frida and Diego: Passion, Politics and Painting (AGO, 2013), and of numerous museum catalogue, book anthology, and journal essay publications. Working in collaboration with Alberto Gomez, she has documented Spaces of Memory in Argentina and the cultural imaginaries of Corrientes through photography and video. At present, she is working on a video documentary about the transformation of the RI-9 from a military regiment to a Space of Memory and completing a book on commemorative artistic practices in Argentina. Since the 2000s, Tuer has divided her time between living in Corrientes and in Toronto, where she is Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at OCAD University. A selection of her writings, including the collaborative photo essay with Alberto Gomez, Traces and Erasures can be found at https://ocad.academia.edu/DotTuer
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Banner Image: “Ventana de RI-9.” From the series Espacios de memoria. Corrientes, 2019.
Works by Alberto Gomez and Dot Tuer
Alberto Gomez, "Tortura 1." Work in progress. Oil on canvas. 2020
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Alberto Gomez, "Tortura 2." Work in progress. Mixed media on paper. 2020
Book cover for "Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics and Painting," produced in conjunction with AGO exhibition curated by Dot Tuer.
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