Abstract:This work starts from a risky question: why, even after three decades, are some deaths still remembered? This question puts us on the side of phantasmagoria-and politics. Street and Fire is an invitation to explore Chilean recent history by following the traces of encapuchados, masked enigmatic figures that haunt the streets of Santiago since the 1980s. These figures appear especially in ephemera that recall anti-capitalist protesters killed during the Pinochet dictatorship and in the post-dictatorship period.… Show more
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