Festivities and bicentennial in Bogotá. 2010 the gaze of others

Abstract

In year 2010, I am celebrated in Colombia the Bicentennial of the national Independence, which served to make all a series of commemorative events supported by governmental organizations, which him to stamp the seal of one of official celebration. This communication approaches other elements that we have denominated like “uses” of the Bicentennial, following a study of the investigator Eric Hobsbawm respect to the Bicentennial of the French Revolution, defined with the expression: “everybody had its French Revolution”. From equal way in this Colombian Bicentennial several institutions have taken the event to have, “parodiando” to Hobsbawm, “its own bicentennial”. The exhibition approaches an analysis of the diverse images that were produced by other voices different from the officials to talk about to the Bicentennial where the use or abuse of the commemoration stands out. The images were gathered together in the city of Bogotá in a species of ethnographic work.