In this work we are interested in studying the way in which the different audiovisual and installative projects of the Argentine artist Joaquín Aras articulate the fragile memories and the successive exercises of translation and appropriation to rescue and/or produce audiovisual archives of cinema. Thus, between oral history, remembrance of the spectators and artistic making, audiovisual works such as those by Aras wonder about the unique ways of agenciating the memory of cinema –beyond the institutional regimes of the archivable– and about other modes of affective contact with the cinematographic medium and its history. At the same time, in these works of art –which are also reflective exercises–, contemporary audiovisual practices explore the expansions and developments of the medium itself in the light of its own history and a present and a future in constant transformation.
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