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Track II is an interdisciplinary installation created by Daniela Contreras and Valentín Jadot, which reviews the historical memory of the 1973 coup d'état in Chile and the control mechanisms installed by the United States. The work was part of the exhibition "Interweaving the Archive", curated by Belén Gallardo and Genevieve Tremblay, exhibited at Soil Gallery, Seattle (USA) between November 8 and 30, 2024.

Track II interweaves textile and digital practices to question and rewrite the fragmented history of the planning, over ten years, of the assassination of a democracy. A two-person exercise to weave with the tactile input of paper and artificial intelligence manual and virtual fragments, managing them in multiple ways to provoke connections and other perspectives.

Valentín Jadot fragments those same documents into a "vectorial" database, ordering by semantics and then training an artificial intelligence that, through a thermal printer, makes appear—among strikethroughs and silences—Henry Kissinger's death declaration.

Daniela Contreras shreds declassified files and reconstructs a lost voice, inscribing a phrase from Salvador Allende's last speech, minutes before his death in the bombing of La Moneda Palace, on September 11, 1973.

track-two.app: visitors dialogue with an AI that impersonates Henry Kissinger, opening an impossible conversation between his voice, the declassified documents and the still open wound.

Printing: meanwhile, conversations are printed on a thermal paper roll. An algorithm strikes through the content. After several hours, along the paper roll, a phrase from Kissinger from 1970 emerges: 'I don't see why we should stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people'.