ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the Avenida Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins, is a busy thoroughfare cutting across from West to East through the centre of Santiago de Chile. Commonly known as the Alameda, the street is more than seven kilometres long and is home to many of the city's prominent monuments and iconic buildings. The work in question in the chapter, Memoria historica de la Alameda, focuses on this street but draws out one particular period in national history, and attempts to generate from the iconic locations along the Alameda the hidden memory of this period. Under the heading 'Alameda and the history', the two epigraphs represent opposing poles of Chile's political spectrum and provide the historical grounding for the project. The chapter argues that the Memoria historica de la Alameda project makes creative use of a combination of internet-based and site-specific interventions which come together to produce a resistant, historical memory of the Alameda and the iconic locations it houses.
