Memoria Historica de la Alameda is a site-specific and participatory project dealing with the Chilean memory and in particular with the period going from Salvador Allende democracy (1970) to the end of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship (1990). The project focuses on Avenida Bernardo O’Higgins - commonly known as La Alameda - and stresses the iconic value for its social and political implications. Since its foundation, in the beginning of the 19th century, La Alameda has represented the quintessential public space, being from time to time a place for strolling, a scenario of urban riots and guerrilla, mass political manifestations, religious processions and sport parades until its current function as urban backbone for public transportation and trades. Accordingly, this boulevard is a source of a virtually infinite collection of personal and institutional memories. Memoria Historica de la Alameda aims at putting in short-circuit the Avenue’s landscape with the events marking its history, and bringing to consciousness a remarkable memory in a nation where the scars of the history are still tangible.
Content summary
In the "Memoria Historica de la Alameda" website you can find:- Details on the project research, design process and technical aspects
- Exhibitions and press clippings
- Details, video and pictures of Memoria Historica de la Alameda - urban performance organized in Santiago de Chile in July 2005
- Details and pictures of a parallel urban guerrilla art intervention named “Here I remember that…”
- A “memories map” showing part of the contents that were collected and presented during the urban performance
- Project credits
- A contact form