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SALA DE LA TELE / Film





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SALA DE LA TELE / Installation






Intervention, Video Installation and Living Archive by Meggie Schneider

SALA DE LA TELE (T.V. Room) is an intervention, video installation and “living archive” at the new Centro de Documentación de las Artes, located in the President House in Santiago, Chile.

The artist dissected and intervened in the display of the audiovisual archive of this institution. After undertaking a two-month research project in Santiago studying the historic relations and esthetics between the TV and video art in Chile, she created and located a Chilean TV room inside of this audiovisual archive by removing its lounge. She built walls and transferred furnishings, plants and TVs from homes to this public space. From the TVs she is running a selection of her films and is projecting her video research about Chilean TV rooms. As a living archive, SALA DE LA TELE is hosting a program of “micro-meetings”, where artists present their video work in conversation with other artists, curators and critics. These meetings are being filmed and they will be integrated in the collection of this public archive. The idea is to reverse the function of this audiovisual archive –not only of incorporation, but also of production. In opposition to the cumulative traditional way of conserving, this work enables what is impossible for the vital and chronologic time: while advancing everything toward degeneration –and death- the living archive regenerates itself, showing an intense form of cultural resistance.

Text/Curated by Paz Aburto Guevara

Produced by Centro de Documentación de las Artes del Centro Cultural
Palacio la Moneda in cooperation with Goethe-Institut Santiago.



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