WORKS THAT PRESENT THE INVESTIGATION INTO VENEZUELAN POLITICAL PROCESSES. THEY CONSTITUTE A MULTISENSORY EXPERIENCE THAT INVOLVES TANGLED TEMPORALITIES AND INTERSECTING GEOGRAPHIES, PIECES OF AN EVER-CHANGING PUZZLE IN WHICH THE COUNTRY'S RECENT HISTORY IS PUT TOGETHER AND DISASSEMBLED AND WHERE TODAY WE CAN FIND SIMILARITIES IN THE EFFECTS OF POPULISM AND THE POLARIZATION THAT EXISTS TODAY IN THE UNITED STATES.
AN AUGMENTED REALITY ART INSTALLATION THAT ALLOWS USERS TO LEARN THE IDENTITY AS WELL THE CAUSE AND PLACE OF DEATH OF MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED PEOPLE MURDERED IN VENEZUELA BETWEEN FEBRUARY 2014 AND FEBRUARY 2023 DURING PROTESTS AGAINST NICOLAS MADURO’S AUTOCRATIC REGIME. IT ADDRESSES THE SYSTEMATIC USE OF FORCE AND THE CONSISTENCY OF REPRESSIVE METHODS USED BY THE MADURO REGIME. THE ABSENCE OF RELIABLE OFFICIAL DATA MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE TO CORROBORATE THE EXACT NUMBER OF PEOPLE MURDERED DURING PROTESTS. THE #REQUIEM200≤ APP READS THE CODES AND REVEALS THE KNOWN INFORMATION ABOUT EACH MURDER WHICH HAS BEEN OBTAINED FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES, INCLUDING HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS AND MEDIA OUTLETS.
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EL HELICOIDE IS A RE-PRODUCTION OF THE FAMOUS ARCHITECTURAL BUILDING BY THE SAME NAME THAT BECAME THE SYMBOL OF VENEZUELA’S “PETROMODERNITY” AND THAT CURRENTLY SERVES AS A PRISON WHERE THE BOLIVARIAN NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE SERVICE (SEBIN) HOLDS BOTH REGULAR AND POLITICAL PRISONERS UNDER INHUMANE CONDITIONS. USING A DEVICE THAT HAS BEEN TRAINED WITH MACHINE LEARNING TO RECOGNIZE THE SPECIFIC AREAS OF THE CENTRAL DOME OF THE PIECE, USERS CAN SCAN THE ARCHITECTURAL MODEL TO REVEAL VIDEOS MAPPED TO THE STRUCTURE. THESE VIDEOS CAPTURE THE MOMENTS OF THE MANY LIVES THE HELICOIDE HAS LIVED, FROM ITS PROMISE OF MODERNITY TOWARDS IT’S DETERIORATION TO A PERVERSE TOOL FOR TORTURE.
El Guiso is an art installation that captures seminal moments of corruption in the Venezuelan epicenter of power since 1989. In Venezuela, guiso means a treacherous business dealing of fraud and corruption. However; it literally means “stew”. Each of the fifteen cooking pots contain a specific guiso that marks the nature of Venezuelan politics as a spoiling stew of corruption and betrayal. It begins with the “Cacerolazos” (pots and pans noise) protests in 1989 during the “Caracazo”, an explosive moment of civil unrest that forced then president, Carlos Andres Perez, out of power, and a protest to corruption that the people never endingly continue through today. El Guiso is accompanied with a cookbook, as a way to describe each of the Guisos inspired by the red book Mi Cocina (1982), by Armando Scannone, known for being the manual for use and style of Venezuelan culinary memory. Popularly referred to as the "Bible of Caracas cuisine."