Moura and Silo: The Landscapes of Imagination as a Way Out of the Hole of Violence

Suárez-Trejo J.T. · Aisthesis (2024) · DOI: 10.7764/aisth.75.16

Resumen

This essay focuses on how the late compositions of Federico Moura (1951-1988), leader of the Argentine band Virus, offer a way of dealing productively with a context of existential precariousness. To carry out the analysis, the contributions of Mario Rodríguez «Silo» (1938-2010) on imagination as an ethical and aesthetic potency in conjunction with the consciousness of image of Edmund Husserl's (1859-1938) phenomenology will be important. In the first part, through the description of both Husserlian consciousness of image and Siloist psychology of image, it will be seen how imagination is configured as a potent way for the (trans)formation of reality. Next, and based on the previous description, the production of Virus since 1985 will be analyzed, with special emphasis on the band's last album, Superficies de placer (1987), which shows the late poetic-musical aesthetics of Federico Moura. © Instituto de Estética - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos