When Personal Becomes Political

Abstract

The work is a construction of personal and social history through an interpretation of selected works of Marcelo Brodsky from his albums Buena Memoria, Nexo, 1968: The Fire of Ideas, and Migrants. The text weaves a narrative of how the personal and political histories are enmeshed following through the migration of the Brodsky family to Argentina, the global economic and political crisis of 1968, the immense personal loss during the state terror unleashed in 1976 with the military coup and its aftermath. Personal suffering becomes a source of political action in the works of the artist who through an internationalist lens builds bridges across countries and cultures.

Key Words:

• Migration
• Argentina
• State Terror
• Loss
• Disappeared
• Political Art
• Memory

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