Marrero-Guillamón, Isaac. 2020. Monumental suspension: Art, Infrastructure and Eduardo Chillida’s unbuilt Monument to Tolerance. Social Analysis, 64(3), pp. 26-47. ISSN 0155-977X [Article]

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Abstract or Description

More than twenty-five years after it was unveiled, Eduardo Chillida’s Monument to Tolerance has neither been built nor abandoned – it is, rather, suspended. The project consists in digging a vast cubic cave inside the mountain of Tindaya (Fuerteventura, Canary Islands). From the outset, it faced the opposition of environmental activists, who argued that it was incompatible with the mountain’s status as a protected site. Drawing from anthropological approaches to infrastructure and art, this article unpacks the Monument’s actual existence as an unrealized project, partly actualized through anticipatory practices such as exhibitions or economic aspirations. The article contributes to the theorization of suspension by combining a focus on the temporal multiplicity of anticipation with an attention to the materiality of unbuilt entities.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2020.640303
Keywords:	suspension, infrastructure, social aesthetics, anticipation, public art, Chillida, Canary Islands
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Anthropology
Dates:	Date Event 16 July 2020 Accepted 9 October 2020 Published
Item ID:	29041
Date Deposited:	14 Oct 2020 09:31
Last Modified:	14 Oct 2020 09:31
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/29041

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