Monuments of Dissidence: 3D Models of the Social Unrest in Chile by the Artist Collective Antes del Olvido
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Matthias Johannes Pfaller Schmidindependent researcher, Germany.
Abstract
The artist collective Antes del Olvido formed in 2019 during the crisis in Chile to document significant locations of the protest as 3D models. Their goal is “to collectively produce an archive of the uprising” as “a political tool, an artifact for collective memory.” Drawing on the concept of artivism, I discuss various aspects of these images: first, their place among cellphone snapshots, graffiti, the urban fabric, and the circulation of symbols across these media. Second, I investigate the importance of location and movement in the protests and its preservation in the 3D models. Finally, I reflect on their role as citizen-generated monuments in providing agency to the artists and the public in shaping historical memory.
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