“Memory is a disputed territory”, Error Process at IVAHM 2019, Spain

As part of a programming collaboration implemented during 2018, between the Festival Error Process (Chile) and the IVAHM Festival, will be exhibited in Madrid, Spain, a selection of Chilean works under the title "Memory is a disputed territory”, whose curatorial text is:

“Chile, a long and narrow country, says the school teaching books. Narrow minded above all. Every day we have to break down borders, in all areas. The pacatería inherited from the Dictatorship of 1973 (and even before) shapes contemporary existence. Only in recent years have counterculture movements managed to establish their perspectives in a much more public way, expanding the range of colors and thinking that existed in the country. This brief selection of audiovisual works exhibits a palette of interpretations of our reality, which in a certain way demonstrates our daily struggles, after all, memory - a key word for contemporaneity - is a disputed territory.

The works to be exhibited are:

partial detonation

Dir. Andrea González G. / Chile / 2017 / 5 min.

Synopsis: Work that uses personal files as well as material downloaded from the Internet, to show the relationship between the individual and territory -a certain vision of helplessness in the face of natural settings and other unmanageable forces-, as well as to raise the traffic of images to which we are exposed and the potential of these to configure realities; dispose ourselves as spectators, generate passivity or indolence in the face of events.

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street analysis

Dir. Pablo Molina Guerrero / Chile / 2012 / 9 min.

Synopsis: Two different places: Valparaíso and Aysén, separated by only one year. The value of rebellion. Deconstruction of filming violence, be it police or citizen. Texts plus images, recycling. Me against the other.

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Alka domo

Dir. Sebastián Calfuqueo / Chile / 2017 / 17 min.

Synopsis: Alka domo is a performative work that refers to the feat done by Caupolicán, a Mapuche toqui chosen in his community after completing the challenge of carrying a log on his back for two days. Based on this story and reviewing references to the masculine in the figure of Caupolicán, the action of carrying a “hollow” trunk of Coihue, an ancestral wood from the southern zone of Chile, is carried out on seven pairs of high-heeled shoes with colors that make up the LGBT flag. “Hollow” is the term with which in Chile it refers, derogatorily, to identities that escape heterosexuality, and that are problematic for the patriarchal system. The places chosen within this action represent spaces of the official story about the Mapuche in Chile, points where the complexity of the interaction between the Chilean and the Mapuche is evident, together with territories associated with the personal biography of the artist.

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17 months

Dir. Andrés Zúñiga / Chile / 2013 / 6 min.

Synopsis: For 17 months an individual and his country are strangers, strangers to each other. The birth of Andrés coincides with the death of another Andrés (Jarlan) in a Chile fractured by a civic-military dictatorship, a context that will inevitably overflow this fragile private world. "17 months" is an autobiographical exercise based on other people's files (some of them found in informal commerce) that reflects on the disparate relationships that an individual can have with his environment.