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 an artist-researcher working at the intersection of cinema, performance, and installation. His transmedia work—rooted in memory, archive, and experimental pedagogy—has been exhibited, screened, and published internationally, weaving critical poetics across languages, geographies, and formats.
Website
Exhibitions
2025 Impressions on Colonialism. Notes on an Unfinished History, expanded cinema, premiere in English: Sunset Kino, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg (AT); premiere in Spanish: Mexico City International Documentary Film Festival.
Límbica, collaboration with choreographer Aura Arreola. Museo Jumex, Mexico City.
2024 Transposiciones, collaboration with artist Julieta Gil, Museum of the Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City.
Oblique Takes. Meditations on Art and Crisis, International Documentary Film Festival, DocsMX, Mexico City.
Esta imagen no desaparecerá [This image will not go away], live cinema performance, Centro Cultural de España en México, Mexico City.
Transposiciones, collaboration with Julieta Gil, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City.
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
