{"id":193,"date":"2010-08-13T05:40:10","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T12:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/?p=193"},"modified":"2010-08-13T05:40:10","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T12:40:10","slug":"what-is-the-miracle-of-chile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/13\/what-is-the-miracle-of-chile\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Miracle of Chile?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/miracleofchile.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2010\/ladrillo1.jpg\" alt=\"Circuit mounted to Santiago sidewalk tile\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLast November I received an invitation from Ignacio Nieto to participate in an exhibition titled &#8220;portables&#8221; at the Museum of Fine Arts of Santiago.  Last Friday I returned from Santiago, following two weeks of production.<\/p>\n<p>Early this year, I contacted my old friend Kurt Olmstead to work with me on a project that I knew would be beyond the scope of anything that I could do alone within a period of several months.  Kurt was on board and we started discussing the premise of the project &#8211; Chile as the laboratory for neoliberal economic philosophy of the Milton Friedman flavor.  Kurt and I grew up in the midst of Reaganomics.  In the 80s, Reagan and Thatcher embraced Friedman&#8217;s neoliberalism and Chile was framed as the example of what privatization, deregulation of the markets and cuts to social spending will do to control inflation and allow a nation&#8217;s economy to prosper.  In 1981, Friedman declared the phrase &#8220;Miracle of Chile&#8221; to reflect the transformation of Chile&#8217;s economy through his neoliberal philosophy as implemented by the Chicago Boys, Chilean economists who studied under Friedman.<\/p>\n<p>It is now 2010, we live in the midst of a global economic crisis and are now questioning the neoliberal economic formula.  The art project consists of a workshop, public discussion, bus intervention and a virtual labyrinth.  Each element asks participants in Chile to identify the <a href=\"http:\/\/miracleofchile.com\/\">Miracle of Chile<\/a> in the scope of their city and personal lives.  A documentation site is available at <a href=\"http:\/\/miracleofchile.com\/\">www.miracleofchile.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2010\/workshop.jpg\" alt=\"Workshop to document Miracle of Chile in public space\" \/><br \/>\nTwo workshops were held as part of the project, one with middle school kids and a second at Matucana100 Cultural Center asked participants to document the Miracle of Chile in their public space.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2010\/ladrillo2.jpg\" alt=\"What is the Miracle of Chile?\" \/><br \/>\nStreet situations, an interactive sidewalk tile invites pedestrians to ask one another &#8220;What is the Miracle of Chile?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2010\/busIntervention.jpg\" alt=\"Santiago Bus Intervention\" \/><br \/>\nAs an example of privatization of public space, a small bus intervention was executed on bus rider handles sold for advertisement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last November I received an invitation from Ignacio Nieto to participate in an exhibition titled &#8220;portables&#8221; at the Museum of Fine Arts of Santiago. Last Friday I returned from Santiago, following two weeks of production. 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