National Council of Culture and the Arts, Chile

DISLOCACION
Ingrid Wildi Merino
(Author and Curator)
September through November, 2010


Santiago, Chile

www.dislocacion.cl

Voluspa Jarpa, Virtual display, "The Library of Non-history."
Sketch, transparent book, 2010.

DISLOCACION came about an invitation by the Swiss Embassy in Chile to put together an exhibit concept commemorating the Bicentennial of the Chilean Independence during the year 2010. The term "dislocation" thereby refers to the action and effect of separating a member from its articulating core. The term indicates a discontinuity within an ongoing process, a displacement and a disarticulation. The subject matter of DISLOCACION is framed within globalization, its causes and effects, showing a kind of "reproduced nomadism", which is implied in several concrete ways, especially in video-essays by Ursula Biemann, Sylvie Boisseau / Frank Westermeyer and Lotty Rosenfeld. Also, there are other aesthetic ventures by Thomas Hirschhorn, Alfredo Jaar, Juan Castillo and Voluspa Jarpa all of which deal with how people live out of phase in terms of economics, history or culture. As an artist and scholar used to engage in collaboration with theorists and other visual artists, DISLOCACION gave me an opportunity both as a curator and artist to conduct a research on the structure of globalization, the significance of migration, territorial displacement and all kinds of social, political and cultural differences. The aim is not to treat migration from a historical perspective.