Sunset Kino – Pablo Martínez-Zárate
30. 7. 25, 9 p.m.
Impressions on Colonialism. Notes on an Unfinished History
A performative essay by Pablo Martínez-Zárate
Introduction by Mirela Baciak, Salzburger Kunstverein. Followed by a Q&A with Pablo Martínez-Zárate and Mirela Baciak.
Impressions on Colonialism. Notes on an Unfinished History, 2025, 60 min
A poetic excavation of power, memory, and resistance, Impressions on Colonialism weaves personal experience with historical and geopolitical fragments to explore the lingering force of colonial structures in the present. Performed live through image, sound, and voice, the piece unfolds as a cinematic essay that resists linearity—inviting the audience into a landscape of haunted histories, fragile intimacies, and unresolved futures.
key data
- Venue
- Salzburger Kunstverein
- Date
- 30. 7. 25, 9 p.m.
- In cooperation with Salzburger Kunstverein
- Salzburger Kunstverein Künstlerhaus Hellbrunner Straße 3 5020 Salzburg Opening hours exhibition: Tuesday-Sunday, 12-19 Uhr
Pablo Martínez-Zárate
Pablo Martínez-Zárate is a media artist, documentary filmmaker and professor living and working in Mexico City. His work explores the interconnection between memory, body and territory through experimental media practice and radical pedagogies. He is considered one of the foremost exponents of web and interactive documentary in Mexico and Latin America. His work has been screened and awarded internationally, and he has also published art editions as well as essays on critical art and pedagogy.
Website
Exhibitions
2024 Oblique Takes. Meditations on Art and Crisis, International Documentary Film Festival, DocsMX, Mexico City.
2024 Esta imagen no desaparecerá [This image will not go away], live cinema performance, Centro Cultural de España en México, Mexico City.
2024 Transposiciones, collaboration with Julieta Gil, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City.
2024 Fugas Mediales [Media fugues], Centro de Cultura Digital, Mexico City.
2023 Studio Variations The Netherlands Film Academy, Amsterdam.
Publications
Eccentric Pedagogy. Artistic Research in Times of Crisis, Amsterdam University of the Arts, The Netherlands Film Academy, The Netherlands, 2023. https://pablomz.info/eccentric-pedagogy
“Radical Interventions. Archaeology, Forensics and Montage,” The Palgrave Handbook of Media Misinformation, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Art as a Beacon of Hope: How Creative Expression Can Transform our World, Audrey Plimpton, Salzburg Global Seminar, Salzburg (AT), 2023. https://www.salzburgglobal.org/news/topics/article/art-as-a-beacon-of-hope-how-creative-expression-can-transform-our-world
