Poetics of hatred: Argentine-Brazilian artistic experiences in times of de-democratization

This article explores two Latin American artistic experiences, Diarios del odio (Argentina, 2014-2017) and Odiolandia (Brazil, 2017-2018). Both work with the same residual matter: texts that circulate the web and that express hatred. In the first one, Jacoby and Krochmalny work with the texts that anonymous commentators wrote under newspaper articles published between 2008 and 2015 in the online versions of La Nacion and Clarin. This artistic experience adopted different languages: it was an installation, later became a poetry book and finally took the form of a performance, directed by Silvio Lang. The second experience, developed by Beiguelman, takes similar texts, but published by Facebook users on their virtual walls. They address a specific fact: the police repression that took place between May 21 and June 9, 2017 in Cracolandia, a neighborhood in Sao Paulo whose streets are occupied by crack users. Odiolandia also began as an audiovisual installation and became a book. The poetic practice of interrupting this discursive flow opens the possibility to reflect upon the structures of feeling of a time that is characterized by de-democratization, and suggests poetic and political strategies of resistance.