Représenter la radicalisation de l’action collective au Chili

Since the early 2000s, the neoliberal social order, imposed in all aspects of Chilean social life, has begun to be disputed. Chile thus finds itself in a process of repoliticization concerning groups longtime excluded from traditional political process. This investigation covers different periods of mobilization and focus on the forms in which the radicalization of collective action is represented/performed. In this context, artistic practices will be analyzed as particular forms of radical action representation. This investigation deploys two central questions: how does art come about and become part of the different forms of collective action? Additionally, how have these artistic forms of expression evolved over the past 30 years? This work mobilizes a sociohistorical methodology and a visual ethnography. The study of audiovisual materials, interviews with young protesters and the observation of various direct actions during these movements, in an immersive activity, completes our methodological framework.