Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction.Dismantling the Nation: Contemporary Art in Chile | Florencia San Martín, Carla Macchiavello Cornejo, and Paula Solimano
Part I. Geographies of Care
1. Parched Narratives: Rethinking Lament and Ruins in Chile’s Central Valley | Sophie Halart
2. New Feminist Performance in the Chilean Revolt: La Yeguada Latinomericana and LASTESIS | Bernardita Llanos and Milena Grass Kleiner
3. Feminist Re-Mappings of Colonia Dignidad as Antifascist Praxis | Carl Fischer
4. The Tides and Currents of Champurria | Mariairis Flores Leiva
5. Epistolary Encounters, Resisting Linguistic Coloniality: A Conversation Between Florencia San Martín, Paula Solimano, and Astrid González
6. Inhabiting the Museum, Displaying Home: A Conversation Between Paula Solimano and María Luisa Murillo
7. Riego: A Language of Shared Water | Francisca Benítez
8. The Tortoise, Ice, and the Cargo Ship: A Curator’s Note | Ignacio Szmulewicz
Part II. Trembling Archives
9. Camouflage and Deviations of Memory: Yeguas del Apocalipsis at the Havana Biennial | Fernanda Carvajal
10. Tumbe: Afrodiasporic Arts in the Andes | Carolina Arévalo Karl
11. Monstrous Nodes of Echolocation | Gregorio Fontén
12. Dismantling Fear: Tatiana Gaviola and the French Chilean Video Art Festival | Sebastián Vidal Valenzuela
13. Dialogue on Hearing: A Conversation Between Cecilia Vicuña and José Pérez de Arce, with an Introduction by Carolina Castro Jorquera
14. Impulse to Capture: A Spoken Portrait | Matías Celedón
15. Sounding Manifesto | Nicole L’Huillier
16. Landscapes of Resistance: A Conversation Between Carla Macchiavello and Colectivo Últimaesperanza
Part III. Futurity and the Antistate
17. $hileyem (Chile se acabó, The End of Chile): Indigenous Media and Decolonial Futurities beyond the Settler State | Antonio Catrileo Araya, Manuel Carrión Lira, and Marcelo Garzo Montalvo
18. Contemporary Mapuche Art and the Cycle of Decolonization | Cristian Vargas Paillahueque
19. Video Trans Americas: The Networked Body and Bordered Violence | Catherine Spencer
20. Una mirada sobre afuera/A View from the Outside: Margins and Institutions: Art in Chile: An Audiovisual Documentation | Verónica Tello
21. Unlearning as a Collective Tactic: Our Place in the Struggle | Colectiva Somoslacélula
22. Cooking, Knitting, and the Cultivation of the Whole: A Conversation Between Florencia San Martín and Paula “Paly” Carvajal Bórquez
23. Ptoschí | Demian Schopf
24. Supercritical Collasuyo | Camila Marambio and Ariel Bustamante
Contributors’ Biographies