NÚCLEO CERRILLOS ARCHIVE: ARCHIVAL MACHINES, AESTHETIC AND POLITICS AS DIAGRAMS OF A CURATORIAL LABORATORY

Abstract

Taking as a historical reference the event that in 1976 caused the loss of the former campus of the University of Chile’s Faculty of Architecture in Cerrillos area, which is currently occupied by police institutions, this article will expose some of the curatorial premises of the laboratory "Núcleo Cerrillos Archive”. This laboratory, located territorially as a dispositive in the National Center of Contemporary Art, has consisted of an extensive gathering of legal and patrimonial documents, but also in a series of creative and communitary operations that, by producing new “archival machines”, have activated other sensitive aspects of the problem. Some of these aspects will be analyzed in order to expose the biopolitical impact of the archive for an understanding of the territory, as well the medial aesthetics activated by the laboratory in this outlying area of Santiago.