CIUDADLAB traveled to Chile to conduct a series of site visits and interviews in the cities of Santiago, San Pedro de Atacama and Valparaiso. The findings were many, too many. However, the most significant one was the fact that in Chile, power is never enacted through the territory in a visible, much less monumental, manner. Instead, we were faced with a city that orchestrates power in an invisible way within its multiple and varied environs –natural or constructed– and in the exchanges of all types that occur within them. CIUDADLAB culminated their study with this exhibition that took a look at the findings on how power gets infiltrated throughout Chile. A four decades old laboratory of the neoliberal canon, the fissures and contradictions of this model are becoming ever more evident in the scenery of struggles that make up the city. The result is a country that simultaneously registers its cultural and political attachments and dissociations by means of a delicate arrangement between geography and power. (2011) www.ciudadlab.com
