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Latin-American Performance, Activism and Public Space
  • ISSN: 2042-793X
  • E-ISSN: 2042-7948

Abstract

This article presents the results of a study of two recent Latin American cases of counter-monumental interventions initiated by feminist and dissident actors: the intervention in Santiago de Chile and the creation of in Mexico City. The analysis of the two cases is empirically based on a combination of social media publications and interviews with central actors conducted during fieldwork in both cities. The analysis demonstrates how the interventions made visible and enriched the conflicts of memory that stem from the traditional monumentalization of national histories, whilst fortifying feminist and dissident movements through an exposure of the continuity of their demands. Based on this combined analysis of the interventions’ aesthetic representations of patriarchal violence on a variety of temporal levels and their role in the reappropriation of public space, we argue that both interventions are in their own way expressions of what we have chosen to call memory activism; an affective, cathartic and aesthetically cacophonous practice through which long-lasting injustices are exposed in the public space.

Funding
This study was supported by the:
  • The ANID postdoctoral Fondecyt (Award 3210074)
  • COES (Award ANID/FONDAP/1523A0005)
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Feminist and dissident counter-monumental interventions: Urban memory struggles between Santiago de Chile and Mexico City
Art & the Public Sphere 12, 19 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1386/aps_00082_1
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Keyword(s): ch’ixi activism; counter-monuments; gender-based violence; Latin America; memory activism; public space; temporality

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