| dc.description.abstract | This research, entitled “Traveling through the corridors of memory: the Holocaust Museum in
its discursive and political constitution”, aims to understand how the discursive and political
constitution of the Holocaust Museum in Curitiba - PR takes place. Therefore, attentive to the
discourse, in its linguistic materiality, associating language with the very construction of the
history of society (ORLANDI, 2009), in order to explain a theoretical and analytical point of
view that starts from the museum as a place built by from subjects, with a view to the demands
that emanate from the social and cultural (VENTURINI, 2017), considering the crossings of
the (re)signification of the story(s) of/about the historical event and the (re)construction of the
memory(s) of/about the Holocaust. Therefore, depending on the production conditions of my
research, carried out in large part during the pandemic, I propose to observe how there is a
movement of (de)borderization of this institution, in order to highlight how the
incursions/crossings to the institution summon the beat between the digital and physical spaces,
which confer a possibility of reinvention of the Museu do Holocausto de Curitiba – PR through
socio-historical claims that directed museum transformations. Thus, I explain that the digital
(re)signifies certain practices of the subject's relationship with the world, between the subject
and history, between the subject and memory, between the subject and language and between
the subject and the museum itself. As a result of my crossings, I understand that, in
contemporary times, there is a movement of (de)borderization of museums, which is
potentialized via the worldwide computer network. Faced with apparent frontiers, the meanings
of/about the Holocaust are also constructed in/by the digital discourse, but also by the objects
that are exposed by the museum, and it is these relationships that allow, in my gesture of reading
and interpretation, the understanding of that, in its incompleteness, the museum institution goes
beyond its own limits, promoting drifts to different spaces of meaning, which set in motion
new/other meanings between the same and the different. It is in/by (re)inventions and
(re)sayings by/about museums, due to the effects of time and space and the beats between
history and memory, that a new museological configuration emerges, producing meanings and
also constituting the museum in (dis)course in the digital space, promoting an extension of their
physical spaces, taking them out of frontiers. So, in/by the structuring effects of the Museu do
Holocausto de Curitiba – PR, I explain how the contemporary museum(s), specifically those
that are responsible for representing the history and memory of the genocides, select the
vestiges of the past and organize discourses to promote and convey a discourse about the past,
the present and the future, in their impact on social practices. | |
