REFRÉNDUM SI NO LÍTICO

Bienalsur de ArteContemporáneo
Agentina 2017
Proyecto SI NO LÍTICO.  Edgar Moreno y Susana Arwas
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El género al cual pertenece este ensayo es al de las prácticas artísticas y su carácter libre de imaginación con sus construcciones y tipos de contribuciones específicas. La intención manifiesta es usar la analogía y la metáfora. 

In 1998 in order to create a thematic park for World Peace in Berlin city, a German artist bargains 

a 30 tons sacred rock called Grandmother Kueka, totem and heritage of a little village of indigenous 

Pemones from Mapaurí, Venezuela. He claims that the rock asked him to go with him. 

The indigenous have a non-written culture and they held protests, since the artist achieves to keep

the rock throughout written, legal and diplomatic means, granted from Venezuelan government as 

a “gift from the Venezuelan people to the German people”.

In 2013 a spiritualist pemon indian (man from the rocks) went to Berlin to 

feel the energy of Grandmother Kueka and during a visit to the Berlin 

science museum, he admired the world's most important fossil, Lithographic

Archaeopteryx, a patrimonial heritage of Germany. He also claims that the 

fossil asked him to go with him to Venezuela. 

  




Since the negotiation to give Kueka back to the Indigenous are static due 
to high diplomatic-political  interests,  two venezuelan artists Edgar 
Moreno and Susana Arwas in solidarity with the little Pemón village are 
 proposing an artistic installation consisting of an electoralvoting and 
conference room to move  worldwide opinion about the issue of Kueka  
throughout videos, artistic actions,interviews and electoral propaganda. 
People worldwide will be able to vote online YES or NO if to return Kueka 
stone back to Venezuela or if to exchange Kueka for Archaeopteryx.
The project questions the economic rationality after the theft of 
patrimonial heritages, the agreements involved and the rights for mythical 

principles of ethnical minorities.