The Hemispheric Institute is pleased to announce the publication of
Villa Grimaldi
by Diana Taylor
From 1973 to 1979, 4,500 people were tortured and 226 people permanently disappeared from Villa Grimaldi in Chile. This book takes the reader on several walks through Villa Grimaldi, and explores the many issues this site (and others like it) raise in terms of memory, history, place, performance, trauma, and political contestation. How does this site preserve, contest, alter, or reactivate memory? Whose memory? Who are these spaces for? What do they ask of us? How can sites, guided tours, audio tapes, video testimony, and digital books such as this one transmit a sense of what happened there, to them, and at the same time, engage ‘us’ as co-participants in the drama? The three visits to Villa Grimaldi staged in this book tell competing narratives of the relationship between place and memory.
Diana Taylor is the Director of the Hemispheric Institute and is University Professor and Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish at New York University.
Villa Grimaldi is available in English and Spanish. It was created by Typefold and developed inTOME.