Instituto Divorciado takes full responsibility for Pinochet's death: Installing Karin Schneider's Work

Saturday, September 20th, 2006 at 00.00hrs,
Artist Statement: Voodoo Chile I would like this piece to function as voodoo. A frustration caused by submission of justice after reading The Pinochet Files, I saw the image of the book on the wall supported by a wrath that bores it throughout all its extension. The drill penetrates in Pinochet's heart, the cover of the book, and stays there supporting/penetrating that history. I asked Diego Fernandez to drill through it and I hope the moment of that perforation will be the beginning of the breeding of bacteria that will go into the blood of Pinochet, drag and proliferate in his body, and that those bacteriae will be the reincarnation of all of those who died during his dictatorship..That these bacteriae can freely circulate through his blood and slowly eat his organs. That the body will rot with as much damage as possible, with much pain, a pain impossible to be defeated by medicine, a lacerating pain, behemoth, that reveals the monstruosity of his being. And that in that moment of cuasi-death, he will be encapsulated in formaldehyde and exposed as a work of art. Title of the piece: Ditador em morfina em bloco de resina, written September 26th, 2006.
Peter Wächtler, Friederich Lissmann, Diego Fernández , installing Karin Schneider's work .

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