CADA (Colectivo Acciones de Arte), Raúl Zurita, Fernando Balcells, Diamela Eltit, Lotty Rosenfeld, Juan Castillo
¡Ay Sudamérica!
1981
Standard-definition video (black and white and color, sound)
Not on view
On July 12, 1981, the Colectivo Acciones de Arte (Art Actions Collective), or CADA, arranged to have six airplanes flown in military formation over Santiago, Chile. As the aircraft crossed the sky, CADA members tossed out bundles of leaflets that proclaimed: “The work of expanding the conditions of everyday life is the only valid staging of art.” Video was shot from one of the planes, while more than one hundred other artists took photographs and captured video footage from points throughout Santiago. Collaged together into this lyrical yet chilling video, the work reminded Chileans of the aerial bombing of the presidential palace in the coup d’état that overthrew the democratically elected socialist Salvador Allende in 1973.
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During the 1960s and 1970s, groups of young artists, filmmakers, and activists based in the US and abroad experimented with newly available portable video cameras as an alternative to corporate television broadcasting.
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