Dismantling the Nation: Contemporary Art in Chile

by Florencia San Martín, Carla Macchiavello Cornejo (Editor), Paula Solimano (Editor)

Overview

The first volume to theorize and historicize contemporary artistic practices from Chile in the English language, Dismantling the Nation begins from a position of radical criticism against the nation-state of Chile and its capitalist, heteronormative, and extractivist rule. At a truly pivotal moment in the country’s history, when it is redefining what it wants to be, the works here propose a way of forging a feminist and decolonial future for Chile. The authors attend to practices from distinct locations in Chile, reconceptualizing geographical borders from a transnational and transdisciplinary perspective while engaging with ecocriticism and Indigenous epistemologies. This is an essential volume for anyone looking to understand the current social, political, and artistic movements in Chile.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781943208586
Publisher:	Amherst College Press
Publication date:	10/06/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	332
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Florencia San Martín is assistant professor of art history at Lehigh University. She is the coeditor of The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art History and is currently writing a monograph on Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar.

Carla Macchiavello Cornejo is associate professor of art history at The Borough of Manhattan Community College. She is coeditor of the book Turba Tol Hol Hol and has a forthcoming book on Chilean art during the dictatorship (Ediciones Metales Pesados).  

Paula Solimano is director of museography and exhibitions at the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago, Chile. Her work focuses on theories of affect and belonging, methodologies of humor and play, and sound and archives in contemporary Latin American art and culture.

Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction.Dismantling the Nation: Contemporary Art in Chile | Florencia San Martín, Carla Macchiavello Cornejo, and Paula Solimano Part I. Geographies of Care 1. Parched Narratives: Rethinking Lament and Ruins in Chile’s Central Valley | Sophie Halart 2. New Feminist Performance in the Chilean Revolt: La Yeguada Latinomericana and LASTESIS | Bernardita Llanos and Milena Grass Kleiner 3. Feminist Re-Mappings of Colonia Dignidad as Antifascist Praxis | Carl Fischer 4. The Tides and Currents of Champurria | Mariairis Flores Leiva 5. Epistolary Encounters, Resisting Linguistic Coloniality: A Conversation Between Florencia San Martín, Paula Solimano, and Astrid González 6. Inhabiting the Museum, Displaying Home: A Conversation Between Paula Solimano and María Luisa Murillo 7. Riego: A Language of Shared Water | Francisca Benítez 8. The Tortoise, Ice, and the Cargo Ship: A Curator’s Note | Ignacio Szmulewicz Part II. Trembling Archives 9. Camouflage and Deviations of Memory: Yeguas del Apocalipsis at the Havana Biennial | Fernanda Carvajal 10. Tumbe: Afrodiasporic Arts in the Andes | Carolina Arévalo Karl 11. Monstrous Nodes of Echolocation | Gregorio Fontén 12. Dismantling Fear: Tatiana Gaviola and the French Chilean Video Art Festival | Sebastián Vidal Valenzuela 13. Dialogue on Hearing: A Conversation Between Cecilia Vicuña and José Pérez de Arce, with an Introduction by Carolina Castro Jorquera 14. Impulse to Capture: A Spoken Portrait | Matías Celedón 15. Sounding Manifesto | Nicole L’Huillier 16. Landscapes of Resistance: A Conversation Between Carla Macchiavello and Colectivo Últimaesperanza Part III. Futurity and the Antistate 17. $hileyem (Chile se acabó, The End of Chile): Indigenous Media and Decolonial Futurities beyond the Settler State | Antonio Catrileo Araya, Manuel Carrión Lira, and Marcelo Garzo Montalvo 18. Contemporary Mapuche Art and the Cycle of Decolonization | Cristian Vargas Paillahueque 19. Video Trans Americas: The Networked Body and Bordered Violence | Catherine Spencer 20. Una mirada sobre afuera/A View from the Outside: Margins and Institutions: Art in Chile: An Audiovisual Documentation | Verónica Tello 21. Unlearning as a Collective Tactic: Our Place in the Struggle | Colectiva Somoslacélula 22. Cooking, Knitting, and the Cultivation of the Whole: A Conversation Between Florencia San Martín and Paula “Paly” Carvajal Bórquez 23. Ptoschí | Demian Schopf 24. Supercritical Collasuyo | Camila Marambio and Ariel Bustamante Contributors’ Biographies