On "Today was my duty ..." virtual transmission on 5 April and June 5, 2010.
Why
operate on two different dates? Why just those two dates?
The virtual performance is proposed to demonstrate the relationship between Bagua events a year ago and the Fujimori coup of 1992, through broadcast live action to try to emphasize common sense both dates as part of the same process.
Seventeen years ago, the brand new dictator Fujimori forcibly institute a new economic model in Peru, neoliberalism. The first steps, and its dramatic consequences appear, ahicito nomas, in the nineties. Seventeen years after its predecessor, president again, not only continues the model inherited from the dictator, but it deepened and radicalized. The dog in the manger, the second-class citizens and 34 dead Baguazo are expressions and the best example of the economic fundamentalism of the ruling classes and a model that is perpetuated and exacerbated.
action on
Part 1: The static frame flat bust, my face stares at the viewer, after a few seconds starts the message to the nation on April 5, 1992 for Fujimori. In response begin to paint their faces with red paint. I stop, Garcia starts his speech on the sale of the forest and the view of the dog in the manger. Continuing with the neck and shoulders. Garcia continues, I wear a gas mask home (of those that appeared in the nineties) and leave the frame. END of the first part.
Part 2: The static frame flat chest, my face painted red and homemade mask stares at the viewer. No sound, pick up a Peruvian flag and clean out my face paint. Fair and showed what I can drink all the flag making, stained with red paint.
In ... Today was my duty to share space García and Fujimori, occur in the speech, amplified and support each other historically speaking. The tough-talking officer from power faces the action "heroic" the citizen. Tote invisible text but framing our lives, and in the video, intangible, but real consequence in the daily lives of people. Given the intangible, the response of the most real, the body disposed, self. The body is consciously violated the paint.
The red paint is but one answer quoted Awajun war paint, paint that matches, which dilutes the identities and phenotypes. A statement of resignation. We could say then, we are all Amazon. Of resignation to sink the commitment to put your face in front of a state power that respects neither respected the human rights of its citizens, which justifies the means, that we underestimated, that is racist, exclusionary and betraying his memory.
García and Fujimori not only share what has been said, the disappointment of many it is also 17 years ago. So artistic action rescues memory-gas mask order to bring this and be reminder of the struggles against dictatorship struggles to achieve their mission successful. As teaching the history, as a lesson to remember, as a call to action.
The second moment of the performance (broadcast on June 5 this year) has no audio, is the tense calm that follows the storm. The warrior's face is cleansed, healed, healed by the Peruvian flag. Silently painful, slow and angry. Nation not a nation and killing each other support. At the end of the video, the national symbol of red paint appears dirty blood "?
Did not teach us that the red color of the flag represents the blood of heroes? He will be the blood of innocents on which our republic was founded, with the same actions of the same players on both sides, with the same power that stains the flag ... and others will hit the streets to laundering.
The National Club Oil on canvas 
