The seminar Death Without Bodies, Bodies Without Life will be carried out in the Atacama Desert in order to explore how the social and political chronicles are historicized and inscribed into the landscape, percolating through the bodies, architecture and institutions it harbors. What happens when a territory’s geography operates as a natural instance for preservation and conservation of the local history, and when, conversely, this natural balance is disrupted by power structures that destabilize the cultural landscape, instrumentalizing the population’s fear and unrest? What happens when a crime scene and its forensic testimonies put to the test the communicative capacities of things, transforming itself into a platform for the confrontation of narratives arrested in time?

Death Without Bodies, Bodies Without Life is part of the program The Missing Circle, which is developed by Magalí Arriola for KADIST Foundation.