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DIGNIDAD, 2018, PERFORMANCE STILL, THE NATIONAL ARCHIVE OF CHILE, OCTOBER 2018

Dignidad is an art and sound installation with a performance at The National Archive of Chile based on secret telephone documents about Colonia Dignidad. Found in 2012 by the ex-settler and activist Winfried Hempel, the audios reveal for the first time to the public conversations between Paul Schäfer and other Nazi agents during 1978. Through sculpture, sound, performance, text, and a selection of historical archives, the installation reveals a complex system of codes and transcontinental actions that culminated in crimes against minors and opponents of the Chilean civic-military dictatorship (1973-1990).

DIGNIDAD, Exhibitions & Performance venues

Widener Gallery, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, (2023) on view NOW through May 14th

LAartFair, DIVERSEartLA, Musuem of the Americas (AMA), Los Angeles, CA (2021)

The Meermanno Museum, The Hague, Netherlands (2019-2020) 

The Immigrant Artist Biennial (TIAB), NYC (2020)

The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA (2019)

Animal Gallery, Santiago, Chile (2019)

The Center for Book Arts, NYC (2019)

The National Archives of Chile, Santiago (2018)

Artist Space, Whitney Museum (ISP), NYC (2018)

 

EXHIBITION NOTE, CANNAL 13, SANTIAGO, CHILE, 2018

VISUAL & SOUND INSTALLATION, DIGNIDAD Exh.NATIONAL ARCHIVE, OCT-2018

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National Archive of Chile, Santiago, 2018. top: TV note / bottom/ installation view

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ARTISTS SPACE, WHITNEY MUSUEM (ISP) 2017-2018, NEW YORK, MAY 2018. PHOTO COURTESY THE ARTIST

The Center for Book Arts, NYC, 2019. top: performance still / bottom: installation view 

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Museum Meermanno, The Hague, Netherlands, 2019. top: performance still / bottom: installation view 

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The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA, 2019. top: performance still / bottom: installation view 

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The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA, 2019. top: performance still / bottom: installation view 

Artists Space, NYC, 2016. top: performance still / bottom: installation view 

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Galeria Animal, Santiago, Chile, 2019. top: installation view 

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I. DIGNIDAD VENUES 

2021

LA Art Show, Los Angeles, CA

The Art Musuem of the Americas, AMA, Washington, DC

Curated by Fabian Concalves

LA Art show: July 29 - Aug 1st

2020

The Immigrant Artist Biennial, New York, NY

TIAB 2020: Mother Tongue Performances Part Two

Co-curated by Mary Annunziata, Allison Cannella, Anna Mikaela Ekstrand, Katya Grokhovsky

Virtual Performance with works by Bianca Falco, Jorge Rojas and María Verónica San Martín.

Lecture: ​December 6 from 4pm-6pm ET

2019

House of the book|Museum Meermanno, The Hague, Netherlands. 

Curated by Ricky Tax

Solo exhibition + Performance 

Sep. 21st, 2019 - Jan 5th, 2020

Performance + Talk: Sep 20th (by invitation only)

at the Royal Academy and House of the book | Museum Meermanno

The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA. 

Curated by Ksenia Nouril

Group exhibition "The Politics of Rhetoric"

Works by Bethany Collins, Sharon Hayes, Sarah McEneaney, Keris Salmon, María Verónica San Martín and Didier William that draw from archived materials, exposing the inherent biases in our everyday language.

Sep 13-Nov 16, 2019

Performance: Nov 8TH, 6PM

Galeria Animal, Santiago, Chile

Solo exhibition + Performance

Aug 1st-31st, 2019

Performance: August 8TH, 7PM

Talk: August 8TH, 8 PM

University of Delaware Museum, Newark, DE

Performance: Thursday, April 25th, 5 PM (Within the "Moving Memorials" performance)

Galeria ATA (Artist Television Access), San Francisco, CA 

Performance: Tuesday, February 5fh, 2019, 7:30 PM 

in conjunction with Guillermo Gomez-Pena,

Balitronica Gomez and Marshall Weber

The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY

Solo Exhibition + Performance

January 18th - March 30th, 2019

Opening Reception: Friday 18th, 6:30 PM

Performance: March 7th, 6:30 PM

2018

The National Archives of Chile, Santiago

Solo Exhibition + two Performances + talk

October 4th - November 30th, 2018

Performances 1: October 4, 7PM

Performances 2: October 12, 7PM

Talk: October 12, 8PM

Artists Space, New York, NY

Whitney Independent Study Program (ISP)

Studio exhibition (2017-2018)

Group exhibition + Performance

May 2018

II. DIGNIDAD PRESS

AD Haagsche Courant, September 26th, 2019

Dignidad, The Hague, Netherlands

https://krant.ad.nl/titles/algemeendagblad/7921/publications/14663/pages/46

Le Monde Diplomat, August, 2019

María Verónica San Martín “La Caja/ El Caso” 1-31 de agosto, 2019 at Animal Gallery, Santiago, Chile

https://www.lemondediplomatique.cl/article6571,6571.html

The National Archives of Chile

 

Opening Reception: October 4th, 6:30 PM

http://www.archivonacional.cl/sitio/Contenido/Cartelera/87473:Dignidad

Music: Diego Las Heras / Performers: Barbara Pinto, Francisca Las Heras, Francisco Bagnara + the artist
 

Performance N2: October 4th and October 10, 7 PM

Music: Diego Las Heras / Performers: Barbara Pinto, Francisca Las Heras, Francisco Bagnara + the artist

TALK “ARCHIVES, ART AND MEMORY": October 10, 7 PM

http://www.archivonacional.cl/sitio/Contenido/Cartelera/87681:Archivos-arte-y-memoria

Emma de Ramón, director of The National Archive of Chile

Margarita Romero, president Asociation for Memory and Human Rights of Colonia Dignidad

Winfried Hempel, lawyer of the victims of the case

Matías Celedón, Chilean writer

María Verónica San Martín, artist

TALK, RED CALLE FOUNDATION: October 11, 7 PM

http://www.gentedelacalle.cl/red-calle/

 

School visits: October 2018

http://www.archivonacional.cl/sitio/Contenido/Cartelera/87474:Memoriales-moviles

III. DIGNIDAD PRESS from the National Archives of Chile exhibit

 

TV News, channel 13, October 5, 2018

https://youtu.be/gyaDfzqoDu4

 

Radio La Clave,interviewed by Fernando Paulsen, oct.10,2018.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK98fcte-0Y

 

TV 13, Mesa Central: Chapter 25 - October 7, 2018.

http://www.t13.cl/videos/programas/mesa-central-tv/video-mesa-central-capitulo-25-domingo-7-octubre

 

Radio Cooperativa, interviewed by Paula Molina, Oct.8, 2018

https://www.cooperativa.cl/noticias/pais/judicial/villa-baviera/hablando-de-la-recuperacion-de-archivos-sonoros-de-colonia-dignidad/2018-10-08/165630.html

 

Radio University of Chile, Oct. 7, 2018

https://radio.uchile.cl/2018/10/07/colonia-dignidad-al-descubierto-artista-revela-las-conversaciones-telefonicas-de-paul-schafer/

 

El Dinamo, Actualidad, Oct. 17, 2018.

https://www.eldinamo.cl/actualidad/2018/10/17/utopia-distopica-la-exhibicion-centrada-en-las-violaciones-a-los-ddhh-en-colonia-dignidad/

 

CASAS Magazine, Art Section, November, 2018. Maria Veronica San Martin "No puedo ignorar la historia y mirar para adelante sin revisar el pasado",by Catalina Plaza. pp.35-40.

 

The National Archive of Chile, October, 2018.

http://www.archivonacional.cl/sitio/Contenido/Noticias/87896:Multiplicidad-de-lenguajes-contra-el-olvido

http://www.archivonacional.cl/sitio/Contenido/Cartelera/87681:Archivos-arte-y-memoria

 

Association for Memory and Human Rights of Colonia Dignidad, September 13, 2018.

http://www.coloniadignidad.cl/actualidad/noticias/exposicion-archivos-colonia-dignidad-2018/

 

The Clinic, Art and Culture, Oct. 2, 2018.

http://www.theclinic.cl/2018/10/02/dignidad-exposicion/

 

Dibam, Exhibitions, October 5, 2018.

http://www.dibam.cl/614/w3-article-87896.html?_noredirect=1

 

Las Últimas Noticias, October 6, 2018, (pp. 50)

http://www.lun.com/default.aspx?dt=2018-10-06

 

Le Monde Diplomat, October, 2018.

https://www.lemondediplomatique.cl/article6133,6133.html

 

El ciudadano, October 7, 2018

https://www.elciudadano.cl/chile/espionaje-y-codigos-secretos-artista-revela-las-conversaciones-telefonicas-de-paul-schafer/10/07/

 

The cultural agenda of Santiago de Chile, October 2018.

https://panoramasgratis.cl/event/dignidad

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SPECIAL THANKS TO:

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The National Archive of Chile

Winfried Hempel, Ex-colono and lawyer of the victims of the ex-colonia Dignidad

Margarita Romero, Asociation for Memory and Human Rights of Colonia Dignidad

 

Audio: Winfried Hempel 

Music: Diego Las Heras, Felipe Valenzuela and Jose Miguel Buitrago 

Architecture exhibition: María Gracia San Martín and Diego Larraín

Performance Coreographer: Maria Veronica San Martin

Sculptures construction: Joshua Heintze 

Transcription (German-English): Elisa R.Linn 

Translation (English-Spanish): Luis A.Cassanova Blanco

Co-producer: Paloma Estevez 

 

National Archives text: Matias Celedon

Translation text: Ian Cofre and Paula Solimano

Photography: Catalina Riutort, Alejandra Undurraga, Wonwoo Lee 

Video Artists Space: Marshall Weber Video Edits: Nicole Costa and Carla Laser

Performers: M.Veronica San Martin, Paloma Estevez, Bárbara Pinto, Francisca Las Heras, Francisco Bagnara, Stephanie Pan and Yel Barnatan

   

Anknowledges: Delia Pizarro, Marshall Weber, Florencia San Martin, Juan Pablo Vergara. 

Daniel Sosland, Julie Garcia and Peter Ludlow.

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. MARIA VERONICA SAN MARTIN 2018

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