¿Hay dialogía y vitalidad artística en las estatuas? Ian Barnard
nos hace esta importante pregunta a propósito de cómo los paseantes del Fuerte de San Diego dejan su huella
visceral en Fray Junípero Serra.
Presidio Park,
San Diego, 1988.
by
Ian Barnard
Junipero Serra about to be beatified,
his statue is defaced with paint: blood on his hands.
“Genocidal Padre.”
Workers quickly remove the
paint the next morning.
Of course the vandalism should have been preserved:
then the statue would have been
living art, dialogic
art.
“Corresponding and coevolutionary histories” (Damián Baca)
Ian Barnard grew up in
the intersection of First and Third Worlds in Johannesburg, South Africa. He currently lives in Los Angeles, USA, where he
teaches at California State University, Northridge. He is working on a book tentatively titled _Upsetting Composition Commonplaces._
