About NO TRUCE. Intervention within the framework of the TERRITORIAL REFERENCES project.
“There is no truce” is the chorus taken from a popular song representative of the Cuban government's policies, which underlines the country's independent character from the US and the unconditional combativeness of the people in the face of economic difficulties.

Under this title and in the context of the Territorial References project, the installation consisted of creating the atmosphere for a CDR party on the rubble of an abandoned dock, Dock #3 on Avenida del Puerto in Havana.

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CDR parties are a popular activity that usually take place in Cuban neighborhoods with the intention of promoting and reaffirming the presuppositions of the Revolution.

The Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR) were founded on September 28, 1960, in Havana, with the objective of carrying out collective surveillance tasks against external interference and acts of destabilization of the Cuban political system, and have since been criticized by human rights groups for engaging in so-called "acts of repudiation," which include abuse, intimidation and sometimes physical aggression against those who are considered counterrevolutionaries, that is, enemies of the Revolution.

These celebrations are accompanied by advertising campaigns on television, which very often repeat the chorus of a popular song on the subject when the time comes. Regardless of the socio-economic conditions, in every neighborhood it is obligatory to hold this festival, which due to the lack of resources is prepared with waste. Chains made with recycled newsprint and wrapping paper, ornaments made from cut soda or beer cans, condoms as balloons and small strips of used clothing. These were the materials used in this ephemeral installation on August 5, 2008, during the collective exhibition Territorial References..

About the curatorial project TERRITORIAL REFERENCES.
Curatorship and production: Yeny Casanueva and Alejandro González

Territorial References was part of a series of interventions in urban spaces, where we interacted with the sociocultural networks developed in specific places in the city. We were interested in understanding space as a continuous flow of exchanges and intercessions where art could relate to reality and generate situations of debate in relation to the contextual criteria that in some way conditioned the cultural imaginary of the city. 

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Regardless of the aesthetic presuppositions that some artists pursued with these interventions, we were interested in constructing another way of representing the social both from an aesthetic and sociological practice perspective, where the works can be understood as social production, which comes from social praxis to the articulation of the communication and from there to its socialization, that is, we tried to invert the aesthetic process by changing the relationships between the elements that constitute it. 

See also:
- Photo gallery of the Territorial References Curatorial Project doing Click here!
- King Shango & San Pedro in the boycott. By: Frency Fernández. Art critic and curator. Making click aquí!


THERE IS NO TRUCE
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