The Miracle of Chile. http://miracleofchile.com/
Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga and Kurt Olmstead The Miracle of Chile is a multifaceted art project investigating Milton Friedman's famous phrase "Miracle of Chile." In 1981 Friedman declared the phrase to reflect a transformation of Chile's economy through a neoliberal formula of privatization, deregulation of markets and cuts to social spending. Today, we live in the midst of a global economic crisis that has lead us to question neoliberal philosophy. The art project consists of a workshop, public situation, bus intervention and a virtual labyrinth. Each element asks participants in Chile (the first country to fully adopt neoliberalism) to identify the Miracle of Chile as reflected in personal lives and civil space. The project is executed for the exhibition portables at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mall Plaza Vespucio, curated by Ignacio Nieto and on view from 14 August through 19 September. The exhibition includes the work of Michelle Teran, Chimbalab, Alejandra Perez, Carolina Pino, GraphTech, Otto Von Busch. "As the phrase contains magical rhetoric we were also intrigued by the existence of a dogma - el ladrillo or "the brick" - which laid out Friedman's principle teachings as a remedy to Chile's economic crisis near the end of Allende's presidency. Written in 1973, just before the military strike, by the "Chicago Boys" - a group of Chilean economists who studied under Friedman at the University of Chicago, the lengthy document prescribed privatization, deregulation, and cuts to social programs to combat Chile's out of control inflation. In 1975, as inflation continued to increase, Pinochet handed over the Chilean economy to the Chicago Boys. Chile became the "laboratory" for neoliberal philosophy." _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
