Based on the feedback received in the last formative review session I make progress in the development of project 2. First, I explored in more depth the concepts of Colonialism and Developing countries, because in one hand UK has a long history as a colonising nation and, on the other hand, Chile has a long story as a colonised country, although nowadays it is considered one of the most developed countries in Latin America. Related to these some questiones emerges:
What is a developed country?
Why Chile is considered developed if we are one of the countries with the widest social class inequality gap?
Regarding the concept of colonialism, I found this interesting quote:
“[the] nations are hybrid narrative constructions that result from the interaction of the colonizing and colonized cultures, and that these nationhoods exist in a liminal space between competing cultural traditions and historiographies”1.
Based on the above I decided to work with the sentence shown in the reference video (see last post): Chile where the impossible is possible.
(Collage made with screencaps from the video and famous images of Chile´s 2010 earthquake and 2019 protests).
The aim of the audiovisual piece is to confront the mysterious and mystical image of Chile that is share in the official video, with what I and other people experience in our daily life in the country through real footage registered by us. Also, our daily life has some “impossible” things as we are developing a unique process in the world, the writing of a new constitution in a 100% democratic process, a president who received a pokemon toy as a present from Japan government or Edinburgh supermarket prices with “developing” country wages.
In addition, I have been thinking about where could I present the video? What place could be better? Inspired by the work of Angelica Mesiti, I believe that this audiovisual piece could be in an international or national museum being part of an exhibition.
(Source: https://www.southlondongallery.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Quarry_B0A1010-2.Crop_.jpg)
The piece can be shown at intervals and before to each viewing people could be invited to write on a piece of paper what they know, think or imagine about Chile. Then, at the end of the video they would be invited to reflect on the previous ideas they had and what they saw and write down their conclusions on the same paper. The piece of papers could be placed on a wall next to the exhibition room and form a new piece of the art work.
(Sources: Image 1, https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1552664688-cf412ec27db2?ixlib=rb-1.2.1&ixid=MnwxMjA3fDB8MHxzZWFyY2h8MXx8c3RpY2t5JTIwbm90ZXN8ZW58MHx8MHx8&w=1000&q=80; Image 2: https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/1S8zYZuBZRRRO8NCd2snO3U5Q1o=/0x0:1620×1080/1200×800/filters:focal(681×411:939×669)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/52325135/30956396166_cfa532c5e1_o.0.jpeg)
References
1. Kay, Morgan. Gendered Postcolonial Discourse in the Mabinogi. Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 24/25 (2004), 216–28. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40285191
