Anachronistic Mapping of Valdivia. Catrico by Andrés Anwandter

Abstract

Catrico from Andrés Anwandter explores how the foundational violence of the city of Valdivia, built on a wide river network, remains latent in its precarious relation in the present. The poems aim is to bring these stagnant and walled waters to the surface, through the assembly of verbal and visual archives that embody multiple forms in which Catrico has been imagined and intervened over the centuries. This article explores how the poet-archivist creates an anachronistic cartography that interrogates the historicity of the urban landscape to reveal how different temporalities coexist in the territory and in language. In the process of reconstructing a common memory, this collection of poems problematizes the historical narrative, both in its inventive dimension and in its mediation in the global internet world.