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Case study # 28 Pop UP Readymade Sentences.

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"Dia del Patrimonio" 1998-2021 (Heritage Day) changed its name after President Boric was elected to "Dia de Los Patrimonios" (Day of Heritages) without asking anyone. President Boric launched a cartoon for idiots on this day called "We Make History" that is meant to be the Constitutional Civic Education campaign but is the not-so-subtle promotion of an "Apruebo" (approve) vote for the New Constitution. My Pop U.P. Tourist Information Centre for the Boric Government's new Sites of Memory Law, foreshadowed in April 2020, was located above the exhumed tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the shadow of the emptied plinth of the Monument to General Baquedano, Plaza Baquedano. I received a participant survey from the Dia de Los Patrimonios asking how I felt about the unannounced name change and if I created an activity with this change in mind. As mine was the only activity to highlight the destruction of Heritage since 18 October 2019, which continued u...

Case study #27 The Count, the Clitoris, and the Constitution in an Imaginary Country

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Chilean Filmmaker, Partricio Guzman (Battle for Chile fame) released his latest film at Cannes 2022 - My imaginary Country. Interviewing only women and featuring Lastesis - A Rapist in Your Path Fame - he sets about setting up the winners and losers of the latest battle fought by a people with arms, rocks, molotovs, immolation, arson, ambush and hijacking democracy. Chilean Filmmaker, Pablo Larraín, then announced his next Netflix called the Count. In this so-called black comedy, General then President then Senator, and Erimitus Head of the Armed Forces for Life, Augusto Pinochet did not die in 2005 but became a vampire and lived for 250 years. Yesterday, in front of Bellas Artes Museum, Santiago de Chile, a collective of feminist artists inflated a giant clitoris protesting the damage that the denial of pleasure has caused women for over 250 years. This temporary intervention replicates the G Spot public artwork of the permanent sculpture by Mariairis Flores, to be installed to the we...

Case Study # 26 War is Over. A sobering thought for arts activists anonymous.

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In 21C, I find myself in a situation of Fluxus after the full rehearsal dressed in Yoko's and Monica’s female attire, adorned by scissors (1964) followed by Presidential semen stains (1997). In 2015, I went to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney to touched one of Ono’s framed breasts because “War Was Over” if I wanted it to be. It didn’t say which breast to touch or which war was over while the longest US war in history raged in Afghanistan and then was lost, abandoned to pre-modern history in 2021. An Afghan rug with the twin towers was exhibited in a contemprary art magazine for the silently salivating Leftovers, post 1989, still Left after Monica’s dress sold for 2 million at auction in 2001, an odyssey of some type, coinciding with the second 9/11. Nearly, 30 years after the first September 11 1973, I was told by the Director of the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago de Chile, Francisco Brugnoli, that the destruction of the monument at the centre of that city is a “comm...