Manual | Macarena Urzúa

Manual (Manual) is framed within the works with restrictions and instructions, at the same time inspired by short experimental works like those of Fluxus, the instructions of Yoko Ono, or also dadaist or oulipian works. Manual is configured as a set of instructions for creating works of an imaginary gallery with installations distributed in four sections / rooms of exhibition: engraving / photography, writing, nature, sound.

Elaborated with a careful design and diagramming, this work is configured as a book and an artifact.

The book includes a leaflet signed by the author.

“Los textos que lo componen admiten ser leídos como la invitación a realizar una acción concreta o como la descripción de obras interactivas en una exposición imaginaria, con lo que podría leerse como una particular forma de écfrasis”

(“The texts that compose it admit being read as the invitation to realize a concrete action or like the description of interactive works in an imaginary exhibition, with that which could be read as a particular form of ekphrasis”) (Felipe Cussen, Rachel Robinson, “RESTRICCIONES E INSTRUCCIONES EN LA LITERATURA CHILENA RECIENTE” [“RESTRICTIONS AND INSTRUCTIONS IN RECENT CHILEAN LITERATURE”], Nueva Revista del Pacífico [New Magazine of the Pacific] 2021, No 75).