MUSEUM WITHOUT MUSEUM

In this, the last version of SACO in festival format before its transformation into a Biennial, the trilogy that began in 2018 with the search for our past (Origin and myth) was closed. It continued the following year with equally transcendent questions and reflections, this time, looking to the future (Destiny), to conclude this 2020 with the need to stop at the ungraspable present moment (Now or never).

The particular visions of each of the invited artists were translated into exhibitions that spoke of various types of "now or never": the deformation of the territories intervened by large industry, intimate and reflective perceptions about the confinement and questions about the data that build this reality; the silence of the driest desert in the world that turns out to be louder than noise, confronting the public in the street, with the greed that devastates nature; break the boundaries between art, science and perception, exploring synesthesia; and the questioning of official history and neoliberalism in large-scale works made up of small messages.

Now or never is also the name of the festival's largest exhibition, which this year was held at Sitio Cero of Puerto de Antofagasta, a place that hosted the seven projects chosen from among 192 proposals from the five continents.

SCHOOL WITHOUT SCHOOL

The restrictions of this 2020 did not prevent the holding of talks, conferences, panels and workshops, among other activities that make up the extensive range of SACO school without school proposals. In this edition, in person, seven transgenerational workshops were held in three cities and a talk on conceptual art. In virtual form, an international colloquium, divided into two parts, about the current state of the arts in Latin America.

In addition, between December 2020 and January 2021, Microcuradurías, a program of curatorships from the marginality, was carried out both in person and virtual for participants inside and outside of Chile.

TERRITORY

SACO, during all its versions, has designed a residency program that allows generating contextualization and research activities and trips in its geographical and cultural space.

Antofagasta, the region where the world's largest open-pit mine is located, is a daunting destination that inspires research in many directions. Thus, the exchange of residences in terradeformed areas was generated, between JA.CA (Belo Horizonte, Brazil) and SACO. At the crossroads with science, this year two art&archeology programs were materialized, one focalized in art&astronomy and for the first time, the call for the art&rocks residency was launched.

As a result of the programs and vinculations with artistic cultural institutions, residents of Brazil, South Korea, the Canary Islands, France, Japan, the United States, Italy, Switzerland, Colombia, Belgium and Mexico developed proposals related to the territory, many of which formed or will be part of the museum without museum circuit.