Collection Title: CADA (Colectivo Acciones de Arte) collection
Title: NO+ (unedited footage I)
Alternate Title: NO mas (unedited footage I)
Alternate Title: NO mas, Septiembre 1983
Alternate Title: NO more (unedited footage I)
Date: 1979 or 1983?
Location: Recorded in Santiago, Chile, circa 1979 or 1983.
Work Type: Performance., Political performance., Acción., Video/action on art & politics., Graffiti/tagging.
Credits:
CADA (Colectivo Acciones de Arte), producer, director ; Lotty Rosenfeld, videographer ; Lotty Rosenfeld, Diamela Eltit, Raúl Zurita, Juan Castillo, Fernando Balcells, creators.
Run-time (hh:mm:ss): 00:07:09
Language: In Spanish.
Synopsis: The Colectivo de Acciones de Arte (CADA) is a Chilean activist group of artists (artists Lotty Rosenfeld and Juan Castillo, sociologist Fernando Balcells, poet Raúl Zurita and novelist Diamela Eltit) who used performance to challenge the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. One of the most important contributors to the ‘Escena Avanzada’, CADA incorporated strategies of theatricality and performance as an essential element to all its ‘art actions’, while questioning the practices and institutions of all politics and conceiving art as a necessary social practice that eradicated the traditional distance between the artist and the spectator. Committed to the foundation of an open and spontaneous practice of spectatorship, their ‘interventions in everyday life’ intended to interrupt and alter the normalized routines of the daily urban life of the citizen, by means of a semiotic subversion that decontextualized and semantically restructured urban behaviors, locations and signs.On the 10th year of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile, CADA proposed the slogan 'NO +' (NO more). This was meant as an open text to be completed by the citizens, according to their specific social demands (No more __). CADA invited Chilean artists from different fields to spread this message on walls all over Santiago. Wall tagging was the first form of NO+, but the slogan was soon used by different collectives all over the country as a massive public symbol of political resistance and non-conformity.Shown in this video clip is raw footage of a public NO+ ‘acción’ at the Mapocho River in Chile.
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Copyright Holder: C.A.D.A. (Colectivo Acciones de Arte)
Contact: Lotty Rosenfeld
Address:
Lotty Rosenfeld
Torremolinos 357
(Las Condes)
Santiago, Chile
Phone(): +56-2-212-8666
Email: lottyrosenfeld@gmail.com