The García-Brand project

Abstract

In the collection of the documents related to the history of Caquetá, the construction of this archive-museum seeks to analyze unexplored dimensions of anthropological relations in the region, particularly in the beginning and middle of the last century. In the process of this research, we also inquire into the way in which this story has been written and communicated. The narratives that are maintained and the dominant discourses. The aim of the project is not necessarily the reinsertion of a missing narrative or the exhibition of historical scholarship resulting from the research. On the contrary, one of the four purposes of this project is to put into question the very notion of history, because there is still the idea of ​​a chronological history where the past is shown as true or immovable. Moreover, it is not the mission of The Garcia-Brand Project built in this process to be presented as an "alternative story", as if trying to find a place to put aside official history or that should be thought of as complementing something was missing However, and in the face of the apparent contradiction that surrounds it constantly, the file seeks to add something temporarily and then disappear. In a reductionist notion of traditional history, this has been understood as a chronology of events or the biography of important characters. The museum archive does not debate that history includes this information, but that history should not be reduced to this alone. Traditional history focuses on the seemingly real events that took place, which become the conscious history of a collective, but it is there that this project emerges, in the unconscious imaginary, from which the facts, objects and feelings that must be collected. These indications, in essence, are The Garcia-Brand Project. The production of this archive includes press photographs, press clippings, transcripts of interviews, video, images and text of field annotations, analog and digital photography.