A Visual Glossary: Delirio Güero (White Delusion)
Nina Hoechtl
Chapter from the book: Carabelli, G et al. 2020. Sharpening the Haze: Visual Essays on Imperial History and Memory.
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Chapter from the book: Carabelli, G et al. 2020. Sharpening the Haze: Visual Essays on Imperial History and Memory.
In this chapter I propose a visual glossary of what I have conceived as delirio güero (white delusion). It derives from my essay film/video performance/fake history show/future re-enactment titled DELIRIO GÜERO WHITE DELUSION 1825, 2018, 2211 and back (2019/2211).
The film takes a deep dive into the nitty-gritty of the outlandish acts of 19th century self-appointed discoverer/artist Jean-Friedrich Waldeck, and architect/researcher/photographer Teobert Maler; the colonial imperial undertakings of the monarchs Charlotte of Belgium and Maximilian of Habsburg in Mexico, along with his follower, the Früchterl [swindler] Anton "Toni" Mayr, a distant relative of the güera filmmaker/artist. My intention is to articulate three keywords that enable a necessarily incomplete dialogue around delirio güero—a dialogue that does not reduce this concept to my audiovisual assemblage, but engages it as a complex practice of entanglement and entitlement, implication and aspiration, innocence and ignorance, denial and delusion
Hoechtl, N. 2020. A Visual Glossary: Delirio Güero (White Delusion). In: Carabelli, G et al (eds.), Sharpening the Haze. London: Ubiquity Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/bcd.j
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Published on Jan. 7, 2020