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Text shown in exhibition After 1973
By Paula Cobo
INSIDE THERE IS ANYTHING EITHER-
In slow motion
The kids in military templates, fucking each other
begging for a dollar
pissing
homeless
the world collapse is always permanent
Which is the truth that sustains the possibility our existence?
After 1973
Lunatic mythologies, governmental prophetic institutions, castles of mushroom architecture,
And what about the plants, the rocks, the ponies?
My impossible enterprise.
Life without fiction. Guy Debord. Emil Cioran
History as a fashion catwalk.
Conscience.
Western cowgirls, in corporate bubble hair.
Cereal boxes, songs, in movies,
Chinoise
Once, Russia was called Soviet Union.
The ghost’s are still-hunting
Clandestine institutions
And I am a daughter of the Chingada,
becoming from the backyard. Transcribing.
Trying to figure out from where the Chingada comes from
Death of the father, death of the mother, sons of the Chingada
America in its backyard, outraged kids,
sucking their thumb, making poop in the plants and pissing in aquariums.
Savage cats, dyed with green fluorescent hair,
monkey institutions
When I was a kid, I had a turtle, they sold them downtown
Carolee Schneemann falling on American concrete
Superb orangutans from 1975, now dead
Gabriela Mistral as a bill stamp.
The phantasmagorical, fantastic fascination of the remote, as a singularity in its own isolated condition; where the birth of the double appears, Michael Jackson, Lisa Minnelli, Cleopatra, Brigitte Bardot, Mao Tse-Tung or Jesus. In other part of the world ELVIS PRESLEY made a cover of the Beatles in his HAWAIIAN TOUR of 1973, Dick Nixon inaugurated for his second term. Telecasted. The United States and the People's Republic of China agree to establish liaison offices.
Walking this year, I see down the bridge, an enormous army of huge ships, ships plagued with the Chinese opium, divine merchandise, blue dolphins tickling, happy all. Blond men windsurfing. In the other extreme of the bridge two school kids, in vacation time, jump off the bridge. Maximum authorities argue about girding or not the bridge. That same year, in United States, is the Twin Towers opening ceremony, ketchup is established as a vegetable in the alimentary list, in Chile the image of President Salvador Allende, sited on his couch with his head blown up by the impact of the bullet of his rifle is reproduced by national TV. 1973.
América
America
Religion manufactures, throwing Donald Ducks books* into the deep ocean,
a sea with no owner, the shared dumpster,
fallow site, front yard to all.
And the coalition of institutions educating for the formation of nuns, generals, executives, actors and artist. Lubricating their metallic architecture, erecting monumental pyramids of Vatican Saints, masturbating, drooling in the testicles of pharaoh’s gods.
Genetic malformation is produced by the familiarity in the map of entries.
The Abundance of blasphemy, slimy, xenophobic, empires. Sor Teresa de los Andes*, killing Peruvians in her orgiastic fantasies.
The conquer of faith. Beauteous fields of absent manufactures. Vertical institutionalism.
My great aunt was Miss Chile, her daughter a Maoist.
A plastic bottle lies on the hot highway cement, on its side, on a soil block, a scrap of fried chicken along with a running water hose, kids drink fanta and eat watermelon.
The only certainty is that we die.
An instant. Finding sense to time-space tempo, the everyday tedium. How to live? Making an auto portrait that vanishes in its own presence on infinite time; in this sense this portrait fulfills time, its emptiness. Portrait of Sisyphus, present in its circumscription, empty in its permanence.
*(1) Hijos de la chingada, its the term applied in Mexico and widely know in South America to the child product of a rape. This term is used by Chilean Philosopher Patricio Marchant in his conference : “«Atopiques», «etc.» et «indiens espirituels»“ or "ATOPICS", "ETC". AND "SPIRITUAL INDIANS" NOTES ABOUT THE EUROPEAN SPIRITUAL RACISM*
He applies this concept referring to the cultural mestizage in the South American thought, making direct reference to the act of rape: The Inca women raped by the conquer (Europe). The main question he posts on here (among others): Is there a thought (voice, tongue, ecriture, (philosophy) of the Spanish (castellano) language?
AMERICA (South) is Nature, EUROPE is SPIRIT (Spiritual / Cultural hegemony: the more amplitude a culture has, the more it reaches; therefor more hegemony above other cultures e.i French Human Rights)
Note: The European spirit NOT thought as a geography, its extraterritorial (amplified to NORTH America),
From "ATOPICS", "ETC". AND "SPIRITUAL INDIANS" NOTES ABOUT THE EUROPEAN SPIRITUAL RACISM
Husserl writes "I understand Europe not just geographically, as in the maps...as if it where possible to define the domain of humanity in a territoriality...In the spiritual sense it results manifested in the English domain, the United States, etc, they belong to Europe, exempting the Eskimos, Indians, [“Indianer der Jahrmarktsmenagerien”], either gypsies in Europe....Under the title of Europe we assume the unity of a life, a spiritual creation, with all its aims, theologies, institutions and organizations."("The crisis of European Humanity and Philosophy", 1935 [from the] traduccion [to french] G. Granel, Gallimard, 1976, p. 352). /
Latin America (THE SOUTH) is the back yard of NORTH AMERICA AND EUROPE.
Cultures (the others) only exist in their process of translation. (In their Philosophycal existence)
We, without the spiritual veil, to cover us, well knows Gabriela Mistral, José Luis Borges. (PM) Intellectuals from the Latin American tongue, but not becoming from the spirit, just from the Nature.
OPEN QUESTION POSTED BY MARCHANT
From where the son´s of Che Guevara, Sendero Luminoso, Salvador Allende become? The political thinking. (Marx), but Husserl also attributes Marxism as Naturalism and not in any case, as Spiritual. So AGAIN, NATURE, but is it just nature?
The Sons of the Chingada don´t have a "Father" or "Mother" (Culture) they act from the abandonment, they ARE only by their abandonment. BEING=ABANDONMENT.
ABANDONMENT=ABUNDANCE.
*Conference made in Collège International de Philosophie, París, 22 June 1988.
*(2) How to Read Donald Duck
From 1970 to 1973, Dorfman served as a cultural advisor to president Salvador Allende. During this time he wrote, with Armand Mattelart, a legendary critique of North American cultural imperialism, How to Read Donald Duck. Forced to leave Chile in 1973, after the coup by General Augusto Pinochet leading to the death of President Salvador Allende.
(From Wikipedia here)
This text was systematically destroyed, burned, and confiscated by the military dictatorship.