알프레도 자르의 <르완다 프로젝트>에서 나타나는 양심(良心)과 관심(關心)의 형상

Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar has been involved in Africa for over 25years probing theconcept of perception, representation and otherness. Real-life world events, such as ethnicwars, territorial disputes, refuges, postcolonial states precipitated by the structural power ofcapital and global hegemony, are investigated as aesthetic concerns. Media spectacles as ourreality, Jaar criticizes dissociative state of the self within: we objectify victims as the helplessand vilify perpetrators as the powerful, but we are likely to remove ourselves from thispolarizing process of narrativization and structuralization. The Rwanda Project(1994-2000) isa work-in-progress project and personal response to Rwanda Genocide, a systematic massslaughter took place in 1994, which over the course of approximately 100 days, estimated amillion people were killed while international community failed to intervene. The notion ofconscience and engagement are driving forces of the Project: Jaar addresses visuality associo-political actions and conscious decision making process on seeing and informing. Accordingly, the conventions of media representation is to be restructured. Strategicallyplanned and executed through intermedial forms of site investigation, research, writing,exhibition, installation, performance and lecture, the Rwanda Project’s temporal andinterdisciplinary apparatus emphasizes the performativity and timeliness of the image: itpostulates the art form as the embodiment of social process and communication.