The Man Who Did All Things Forbidden, 2014
HD Film, black and white, with sound, 40 min.
The film departs from an historical research about how Chilean poetry became radicalized by politics after the 1973 Coup D’Etat, with the posterior introduction of a neo-liberal economy in that country. In the first part of the film we see the main actor discussing with a Chilean television anchorman the reasons of his stay in Chile and of his interest on starting a new form of artistic avant-garde that would transcend all political sides by combining them. The film then enters a story that develops on a mythological level, where we follow a man breaking different social taboos inside the micro community where he lives.
The Man Who Did All The Things Forbidden , 2014 (Video Still)
The Man Who Did All The Things Forbidden , 2014 (Video Still)
The Man Who Did All The Things Forbidden , 2014 (Video Still)
The Man Who Did All The Things Forbidden , 2014 (Video Still)
The Man Who Did All The Things Forbidden , 2014 (Video Still)
Berlin Biennale 2014
Berlin Biennale 2014
Berlin Biennale 2014
Ideological Cubism Manifiesto
Ideological cubism is strictly a mental construction. It establishes that future art cannot be manufactured—it must only be a product of the mind, made of words.
In the politics of the umpteenth world, agents are indistinctly interchangeable from one party to the other, which demonstrates the validity of ideological cubism. Things do not have a possible intrinsic value and their poetic equivalence flourishes only in an internal sector, more exciting and definitive than a dismantled reality. The material conditions of things are not determined by a political position, but rather, they reflect all existing positions. Historical materialism is only one side of the polyhedron. Discursive classification from the right, the center or the left does not work. And therefore:
Good and evil are conditions of vital intensity; never dogmatic morals.
Humans are not a level and systematic clockwork mechanism.
Sincere emotion is a form of supreme arbitrariness and specific disorder.
Duality is an analytical resource, but not one that has built the world.
Humanity has always spoken of multiplicity without unity, albeit in an encrypted manner.
Ideas often derail—they are never continuous nor successive but simultaneous and intermittent. The only possible frontiers between art and society are the same insurmountable boundaries of our own marginalist emotions. As the State has demonstrated its insufficiency, and democracy has shown its emptiness, individuals have a right to self-legislate: individuals need their own laws to be free. We are far from the spirit of the beast. We are free from its heaviness; we have shaken its prejudices. Now our laughter is The Great Laughter.
Front cover of the book NEVER SAY IN PRIVATE WHAT YOU (WON'T) SAY IN PUBLIC
Back cover of the book NEVER SAY IN PRIVATE WHAT YOU (WON'T) SAY IN PUBLIC
El Buró Fantasma, Clandestine intervention on news papers
Clandestine intervention on news papers
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