Urban intervention shown in the context of the 2011 referendum. The questions were made from a mixture of two elements: aside recurring phrase was used in the ten questions Question: Do you agree? and other texts used on the country and the revolution, these texts were transcribed verbatim from the official propaganda Alianza Pais, especially of their songs.
Thanks: Susana Anda, Fernanda Andrade, Adrian Balseca, Jaime Sanchez.
Manuel Kingman, 2011
PUTA COUNTRY, WITH INFINITE LOVE
For X. Andrade
By resource economics Manuel Kingman has been used for the project "Est to you agree? " sharp appreciation of artistic comment, welcome precisely when it approaches the so-called" referendum "on May 7, 2011. In fact, its launch could not have been more precise, right in the final week of electoral competition marked by its nature artificial. Used as part the modus operandi of a government that uses regular elections as a strategy to expand its power over the state apparatus and civil society, the city of Kingman intervention interferes with the regular circuit of an uneven flow of information to different parties and movements have launched from months ago.
This project makes use of phrases on verses of songs from the official party coupled to the original formulation of the questions that are the subject of consultation, he derives the name of the whole Kingman scattered interventions made in the public space in Quito. So, the posters that are fed up of those speeches that appeal directly to the emotional affiliation with a series of abstractions relating to patriotism and revolution, which are then perfomed, while singing, only to give a public account not rationality but rather an act pop of faith: the songs of a political party during a political campaign are those of a political language that requires, in turn, a political karaoke.
The effectiveness of this project is therefore , to use the dominant language of the official campaign intervened through the appropriation of their devotional kitsch cultural producers and supporters. Created the posters and suggest play a role in the manner of subtitles for karaoke, highlighting the nature of the circus atmosphere of the moment, and political and historical tradition in the country. This action is particularly critical when one considers that between the banality of power generated by this system highlights the role of music as part of its inbred and public rituals. The black and white territory fervent affiliations of other or not, remains only the devotion and the mechanical repetition of slogans such rhetoric and discourse that has surrounded this campaign. The subtlety in the phrasing of the questions that passers Kingman launched at the same time, something that blends perfectly with the tone sarcastically resemblance of an official campaign.
Question: Do you agree that the country is filled with clean hands, lucid minds and courageous hearts? Yes Question: Do you agree with the winds of a new nation tour the country? Yes Question: Do you agree that we sing together the beautiful and great country? Yes Question: Are you agree that the country is on it? Yes Question: Do you agree that the revolution is under way? Yes Question: Do you agree to return to have a homeland? Yes Question: Are you under citizen's revolution we? Yeah right, Kingman, okay.
overtaken by me laugh is the last question: Do you agree? The repetitive nature of the platitudes of official discourse on the country, and in the very repetition of this questionnaire is a perfect parody of an electoral process that goes from roosters rights (other than those of bulls, please do not confuse), to monitoring mass media, through a new coaptation of justice in politics, as if you had not been, and as if one day it would leave to be. In fact, these questions may well have been written by - perhaps appropriate for given the squalor of the same - ideologues, fanatics and supporters alike. No doubt there will be people who is convinced that this is the jewel in the crown of genius communication of the government. I'm afraid that would be considered too enlightened and in tune with contemporary art, art that is polluting their quake-Indian reifications.
On the other hand, the poetic absurdity of the infinite love that these questions jingoistic contains, also works to comment on the emptiness of the imaginary opposition to the regime, which must also be infinitely grateful. Burros ears talking about when discussing the politicization of justice, liars while selling the country's interests corporate and foreign, stage and guayabera brave Wig, media figureheads. In short, past presidents, dolphins eternal, and opportunists diverse as zero for producing knowledge about politics, so eager for his own farce. If no one believes them , then, seems to suggest Kingman, why not ask questions of the height and nature.
To return to the economy of resources in this project, in itself a criticism of the squandering electioneering "the" campaign, strategically Kingman questions are not recorded in the stale language of graffiti so coapts by the policy itself, but rather the publicity resemblance cheap, as cheap as politics itself. Simple black and white papers which ballots, yes or no?
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