¡Ay sudamerica! 400.000 textos sobre Santiago
Colectivo Acciones de Arte (Chile)
This document was part of the action with the same name—¡Ay sudamerica! 400.000 Textos sobre Santiago—[Ay, South America! 400,000 Texts over Santiago] carried out by C.A.D.A. (Colectivo de Acciones de Arte) [Art Action Collective] in 1981 in Santiago de Chile. In this action, six light airplanes, starting from various points along the city's perimeter, released copies of this leaflet, representing a continuation of their actions in the city's public spaces. This action was understood as a "escultura social" [social sculpture] in which C.A.D.A. was inviting the viewer to participate in broadening their mental space—as a kind of artwork—and their link with Latin American contexts and thinking.
On July 12, 1981, six small airplanes flying in a perfect formation over Santiago de Chile dropped 400,000 leaflets, in which there was a discussion of the relationship between art and society. This action referred back to the bombardment of the government house (La Moneda) that marked the fall of the democratic government of Salvador Allende and the start of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile. Through this action, CADA reconstructed the political trauma of 1973, at the same time it proposed a new critical political perspective. The leaflets contained a message that both confirmed the right of every person to a dignified way of life and proposed that the general public was capable of establishing a new concept of art that could surpass the traditional elite limits and become part of public life.Formed by the visual artists, Juan Castillo and Lotty Rosenfeld, the sociologist, Fernando Balcells, the writer, Diamela Eltit and the poet, Raúl Zurita, the Colectivo Acciones de Arte (C.A.D.A.) performed mass actions to denounce the sociopolitical conditions prevailing in Chile between 1979 and 1985.
Book or Pamphlet
C.A.D.A.
actions (works of art)
Balcells, Fernando
Castillo, Juan, 1952-
Eltit, Diamela, 1949-
Rosenfeld, Lotty, 1943-
Zurita, Raúl, 1950-
Colectivo Acciones de Arte. ¡Ay sudamerica! 400.000 textos sobre Santiago. Exh. cat., Santiago de Chile: C.A.D.A., 1981.
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© CADA Reproduced with permission of Lotty Rosenfeld, Santiago de Chile, Chile
Universidad de Playa Ancha, Valparaíso