“Denied in toto”. Documental Poetry and Archive Collectivization in Chile
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This article studies the use of archival documents in contemporary Chilean art, in a context of social demands for access to the files of the dictatorship in that country. Starting with the book of documental poetry Chile Project: [Re-classified] (2013) where Carlos Soto Román intervenes CIA declassified files, and in relation to the works of Voluspa Jarpa and Francisco Tapia Salinas, the article reflects on the meaning of recent artistic and social calls for a collectivization and declassification of archives. It argues that these initiatives that access the documents "from below", against the decree that classifies them until 2054, and together with social proposals for a decentralized collective archive, challenge the state monopoly over public information and illuminate the construction of an “archival truth”, thus constituting a new critical power for arts and literature.
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