La dimensión social del museo taller Ferrowhite: el ejercicio colectivo de rememorar (Bahía Blanca, Rep. Argentina, 2004-2014)

Abstract

Through the study of the Ferrowhite Workshop Museum, this Master's thesis in Latin American Art problematizes the participatory and collaborative practices permeated by strategies, poetics and rhetorical resources of contemporary art woven with the social warp in museums of Argentina during the 21st century. In this sense, he hypothesizes that Ferrowhite, during the administrations of Cristian Peralta (2004-2006) and Reynaldo Merlino (2007-2014), was created as a socially specific site museum because the intersubjective fabric woven between municipal workers of culture and railway-port workers / neighbors nucleated in the Friends of the Castle Association promoted the care and patrimonial valuation of the property of the former General San Martín plant, located in the Saladero neighborhood of the port town Ingeniero White de the city of Bahía Blanca. In turn, since it is a workshop museum, the prioritization given by articulating with this community framework made possible the construction of a railway port memory attentive to the local consequences of Menem neoliberalism with two types of practices (shared decolonizing exercises): participation was the key to the institutional dynamics in relation to patrimonial, exhibition, communication and educational issues, and since the end of 2006, the collaboration favored the development of creative situations of political-artistic activation.