Cultural Coordinators: transversal training in chile during the dictatorship

Abstract

This paper focuses on the experience of cultural coordina- tors in Chile during the civic-military dictatorship. During the repressive scenario, along with the climate of censorship of the time, different forms of collective and transversal articu- lation emerged that were linked to different groups and or- ganizations from the world of art, culture, defense of human rights, trade unions, groups of populations and parishes, to sustain cultural initiatives and the struggle against dictator- ship that coexisted at that time. The objectives of this re- search are to contextualize these experiences and to provide valuable information that allows us to understand the types of organizations that participated, as well as some of the activities carried over these seventeen years. This research was carried out based on the archives and private collections kept by a number of Chilean artists. A documentary analysis of this material was carried out, as well as the use of theo- retical concepts to critically address those materials. The ex- periences of cultural coordinators analyzed in the paper have not been previously studied, and little reference has been made to them in the national scenario; as such, this article aims to contribute to this documentary gap of the period.