DISLOCATION
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DISLOCATION
Santiago, Chile. 2 September – 15 November 2010 / Bern, Switzerland. April – May 2011
CHILEAN AND EUROPEAN ARTISTS TAKE CRITICAL AIM
* Between September 2nd and November 15th, 15 prominent artists will simultaneously intervene in nine different sites in Santiago, including major museums, alternative locations and public spaces. Known for their commitment to social criticism, the artists address issues affecting contemporary societies and involve the viewers into the performative structure of their works of art.
* DISLOCATION is a project led by the Chilean artist and curator residing in Switzerland Ingrid Wildi Merino, who teaches at the HEAD Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design, Geneva. This project is presented as a critical reflection about the processes of globalization and the mismatches that it produces. Participating artists are: Alfredo Jaar, Thomas Hirschhorn, Ursula Biemann, Lotty Rosenfeld, Boisseau & Westermeyer, Juan Castillo, OOO Estudio, Josep-Maria Martín, Bernardo Oyarzún, RELAX (chiarenza & hauser & co), Camilo Yañez, Ingrid Wildi Merino, Voluspa Jarpa, Mario Navarro y Claudia Aravena.
* As a reflexive complement to the urban displays and interventions, the project includes community activities, conferences, –among them a presentation by Ute Meta Bauer, co-curator of Documenta 11 in Kassel – and workshops; as well as a remarkable film series by the film critic and historian Bertrand Bacque, professor of the film section at the HEAD Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design, Geneva.
* DISLOCATION has the support of Fondart, Embassy of Switzerland, the National Council for Culture and Arts, Pro Helvetia, Avina Foundation, Dirac and Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design, Geneva, among other institutions. The project will resume in the Kunstmuseum in Bern, curated by Kathleen Bühler, between March and June next year. All information about the project, the artists and the schedule of activities is available at www.dislocacion.cl
* The opening will be on September 2nd at 8:30pm, at the Cine Arte Alameda
DISLOCATION is a project that focuses specifically on the way a large part of the world’s population lives out of phase, whether in economic, historical and / or cultural terms. The curator explains: “I’m interested in questioning through artistic research processes from the perspective of Chilean and Swiss creators the implications of globalization. I want to raise the question how migration, deterritorialization, sociopolitical and cultural differences related to the economy and global politics affect our daily life.”
DISLOCATION is a binational project between Switzerland and Chile, on the occasion of the bicentennial that will occupy different areas of the city of Santiago during the months of September through November.
DISLOCATION will take placebe at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (National Museum of Fine Arts), Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende (Salvador Allende Solidarity Museum), Museo de la Memoria (Memory Museum), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Contemporary Art Museum) Parque Forestal, Galería Metropolitana (Metropolitan Gallery), Galería Gabriela Mistral (Gabriela Mistral Gallery), Cine Arte Alameda (Alameda Film Arts), Ulises bookstores and Universidad Diego Portales (Diego Portales University). The project brings together national and international artists, who have participated at international exhibitions and who are internationally renowned for the critical power of their proposals.
THE ARTISTS SPEAK
Fifteen Chilean and European artists participate in DISLOCATION, some individually and others collectively. The Chilean Claudia Aravena will intervene the Paseo Phillips building in the Plaza de Armas, making a comment on the situation of exclusion of Peruvian immigrants in Chile. The Swiss artist, theorist and curator Ursula Biemann, will display a series of video-essays on migration from the Sahara to Europe at the Museo de Bellas Artes (Museum of Fine Arts). In the Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, the duo formed by Sylvie Boisseau & Frank Westermeyer will show the result of an investigation on the relationship between Germans and Mapuches in southern Chile. In the same place Ingrid Wildi Merino will show a video installation, the result of her research in Arica and Iquique, where she interviewed the inhabitants, anthropologists, sociologists and economists to record local and national issues. Dealing with the issue of relational aesthetic, the Chilean Juan Castillo will produce a television program of the La Victoria neighborhood in which the inhabitants will participate. He will also show a video of an immigrant who narrates his feelings of exclusion. This will be projected on a truck that will drive through various sectors of Santiago. The OOO ESTUDIO group will set up inside a humble dwelling, suggesting a fiction of everyday life and the possibility of other ways of living. At the Museo de la Memoria (Memory Museum), Camilo Yáñez will show a video installation that records the symbolic renewal of the Estadio Nacional (National Stadium) in Santiago. Mario Navarro, for his part, will install a new version of “Radio Ideal” in different parts of the city, a mobile radio that will gather citizens concerns. At the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Contemporary Art Museum) in Parque Forestal, Alfredo Jaar will display portraits of the legendary union leader Clotario Blest before his death. Voluspa Jarpa will intervene the space of three branches of Ulises bookstore with books based on the files on Chile declassified by the CIA between 1998 and 2001. Josep-Maria Martín will assemble in the Galería Gabriela Mistral a timeline made up of documents, letters, emails, photos, maps, models, sound and video interviews which aim to build a metaphor of Chile today. Bernardo Oyarzun will prepare a work comparing the languages of our indigenous peoples with the dominant languages of the West. Lotty Rosenfeld will put together an installation of her video “Cuenta Regresiva” (Countdown), based on a screenplay by the writer Diamela Eltit. The RELAX group (chiarenza & hauser & co) will perform a piece questioning the economic image that our country portrays. One of the main parts of the installation is invest, a mobile cart with a printed image which reads “Chile: invest now!”. Finally, the renowned Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn will cut a Ranger truck in half and paste it again with adhesive tape. The piece questions our unbridled capitalism and at the same time, it presents itself as the privileged image of the concept of DISLOCATION.
A VERY INTENSE WEEK: 2nd TO THE 8th OF SEPTEMBER
The most intense period of this ambitious project will be concentrated between the 2nd and the 8th of September. In that week there will be several daily openings in different areas (see below for schedule of openings); there will be a discussion workshop and various conferences at the Universidad Diego Portales, Cine Arte Alameda, the cinema of the Centro de Extensión UC and the Galería Metropolitana. Among the participants features Ute Meta Bauer, director of the visual arts program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and former co-curator of Documenta in Kassel. www.dislocacion.cl/conferencias-es.php
One of the most attractive features is the film series that will take place at the Cine Arte Alameda. Under the heading Who tells the Story? Who manufactures the Image? we will see important pieces by contemporary artists and filmmakers. It is about films with limited distribution and that no one should miss. The schedule for the film series can be found at www.dislocacion.cl/ciclodecine-es.php.
ALL THE INFORMATION REGARDING DISLOCATION IS AVAILABLE AT www.dislocacion.cl
