Archivo CADA

de Fernanda Carvajal, Jaime Vindel

The book represents the last phase of the long work process of the group of researchers of the Red Conceptualismo del Sur (RedCSur), which contributed to develop a public access to the Archive of the Colectivo de Acciones de Arte (CADA), composed of visual artists Lotty Rosenfeld and Juan Castillo, writer Diamela Eltit, poet Raúl Zurita and sociologist Fernando Balcells. Throughout the last decades, CADA has entered the canon of artistic practices that, from Latin America, have been characterized by their dematerialized, procedural, ephemeral, poetic or conceptual importance combined with political actions, through their memory criticism of the symbolic, economic and political disputes of the art / political archives. This publication presents the collaborations and alliances that made possible the institutionalization of "CADA Archive" in the Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos in Santiago de Chile and at the same time, analyzes the differences and significant ways of organizing the documentary traces of CADA expanding its uses.