AA Art Activist Anonymous

  NO+....... = Cultural Warfare as Art Activism for Justice. NO PEACE WITHOUT JUSTICE = Urban Warfare called Protest. PEACE = HISTORICAL DEBT = Rural Terrorism in the name of Justice until there is a surrender. PEACE (PAZ) = Christo wrapping as the White Flag of the surrender of all public space to the Black Flag of violence, destruction, and terrorism.

  Open Call for Nominations for The 2023 International Award for Public Art. As PAD has declined to allow my peers to review my two research articles on Ground Zero, Santiago de Chile, I decided to nominate, for the second year running, the unmaking of Plaza Baquedano as Ground Zero for the international award for public art. Artist; The New Constitutionalists (aka Lista del Pueblo and Primera Linéa) Public Artwork; (100 words) Plaza Baquedano was negated, literally and physically by protest violence and destruction, beginning on 18 October 2019, and took two years to unmake this public space. This wholesale destruction was applauded by global solidarity groups. In Chile, the Museum of Contemporary Art Director, Francisco Brugnoli, described this as a "community action" to be analyzed like any monument. After the statue monument was removed in early 2021, the remains of the Unknown Soldier were exhumed for fear that protesters would dig them up. A desolate public space is the...

  Curated by Nelly Richards, one half of "Poetics of Dissent", representing Chile at the 2015 Venice Biennale, was a video work by Lotty Rosenfeld. No, No Fue Feliz (No, I Wasn't Happy) is a montage of 20C greatest protest hits adapted with millennial "Malestar" for and by the contemporary art world, its industries, venues, and subsidiaries. The Artist's signature is a single white line crossing the middle of the road broken white line. She juxtaposes her individual + and collective work in Chile as a founding member of CADA 1979-1984, NO + with: the Spanish Civil War, the Holocaust, Cuba, Chile 1973-1989, Berlin Wall, Gulf War, Arab Spring, Snowden, the 15 minutes of fame Occupy Movement, and from Warhol's same hometown, the New York Stock Exchange (and other mind control apparatus of neo-liberalism) before returning to Chile in 2014 with a student being arrested in Alameda by police (obvious torture) and a Mapuche demonstration in Santiago's stree...

Chile 1979-1981 "Are You Happy?" Alfredo Jaar, Santiago de Chile Chile 2014 World Happiness, Highest ranking in Latin America Chile 2015 "No, I Wasn't Happy". L Rosenfeld, Venice Biennale Chile 2017 UN Human Development Index, Latin American best Chile 2020 "Thinking Discontent". October Crisis & the Constitutional Question. Carlos Peña. Chile 2022 "Plurinational Republic of Chile" President Boric & the Constitutional Circus

  Don't you love how all Artists are Left-wing and when we hear the word "Revolution" we reach for the French version and not the original, modern version in the United States of America. Their longest serving Constitution for the Re-public is never cited as delivering social justice, just more inequality for the poor huddled masses of a velvet revolution. Rather, we jump on the Paris 68 bandwagon to hijack the Pursuit of Happiness with 20C cries of Liberté, égalité, (non-gender specific) fraternité and something about demanding the impossible while we look for the beach beneath the street. ACAB is our collective con-science, our historical memory map indicating on which side of history and those barricades we should have been standing if we were old enough to forget reality and live the historical moment. Like the two month Paris Comune a century before, this undergraduate revolution failed for a very good reason and beyond reasonable doubt.

"If you care about justice—and you absolutely should—you should care about facts and the ability to discuss them openly. Justice requires contact with reality. It simply isn’t the case—it cannot be the case—that the most pressing claims on our sense of justice need come from those who claim to be the most offended by conversation itself." https://www.samharris.org/blog/can-pull-back-brink?fbclid=IwAR2p0NDWhXHd2i6tXhUdeNwCHaJimIu8BPFA34e5A_FXtmu9JvhlOJHFNVU

  If Green was the New Red, what colour will the People and Genders of the Rainbow become? On the the dark side of the moon of thought, will they just be another brick in the wall that fell in 1989?

  The hijacking and burning of buses as barricades at either end of Irene Morales Street, Ground Zero, has transformed from Invented Traditional Protest in 2019 to habitual protest. The last instrumentalization of a public transport bus as a weapon of street warfare was the beginning of April 2022. The identification of Irene Morales Street as a New Site of Memory is imminent, together with the street’s renaming as Mauricio Freddy, the name of the person who died by falling into a hole created by rioting violence and vandalism on 23 December 2019, who was simultaneously electrocuted and drowned on the corner of Irene Morales and Alameda. The Boric Government’s new laws for visual art, new heritage and their old right to this protest will preserve the stencil mural of Mauricio Freddy as visual art and visually and actually re-imagine this place as a new site of memory, a new memory site to remember the urban insurrection's violence and destruction as just.

Memory Frames was a commission of the 1st Hecho en Casa (Homemade) Urban Intervention Festival in Santiago de Chile, 2012. The work is made by Andrea Wolf but is actually the name and content of her 2008-2009 “online interactive narrative and video installation with a machine-like physical interface that screens fictitious interpretations of home videos. "6 memories I have never had" is the working title. In 2012, these fictions were reformatted for the Alameda facade of the GAM under the original title of Memory Frames - the memory machine-like physical interface was substituted with a cultural institution. The artist statement for the original is a slogan from the academy of Memory Studies, established in the Memory Boom of the 1980s that has since paid dividends in this type of social and cultural capital. “The present is permeated by the past through memories, experiences, and the unconscious that reorganized themselves in relation to the present events, creating a narrat...