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artists & participants
3nos3,
Abderhalden,
Elias Adasme,
Gambas Al Ajillo,
Arte Al Paso,
Patricia Alfaro,
Alfredo Alonso,
Alejandro Amdan,
Roberto Amigo,
Andre,
Andres Arizmendy,
Artistas Del Mas Movimiento Al Socialismo,
Aspix,
Fernando Balcells,
Fernando Coco Bedoya,
Bernardita Birkner,
Luiz Fernando Borges Da Fonseca,
Pinochet Boys,
Marcela Briones,
Equipe Bruscky,
Paulo Bruscky,
Rafael Bueno,
Maris Bustamante,
Cada Colectivo de Acciones de Arte Raul Zurita,
Capataco Colectivo de Arte Participativo Tarifa Comun,
Hector Carballo,
Antonio Carlos Callegari,
Becquer Casaballe,
Francisco Casas,
Juan Castillo,
Grupo Chaclacayo,
Joao Chagas,
Lia Colombino,
Pedro Cornejo,
Gregorio Cramer,
Armando Cristeto,
Cucano,
Vagner Dante Veloni,
Juan Davila,
Polvo de Gallina Negra,
Centro de Livre Expressao,
Agrupacion de Plasticos Jovenes Apj,
Madres de Plaza de Mayo,
Domingo de Ramos,
Comunidad de Santa Teresita Etnia Chiriguano,
Guillermo Deisler,
Gerardo Dell´oro,
Horacio Devitt,
Wlademir Dias Pino,
Luz Donoso,
Gonzalo Donoso,
Cynthia Dorneles,
Ricardo Elkind,
Diamela Eltit,
Emei,
Emel,
Paz Errazuriz,
Ticio Escobar,
Pepitito Esquizo Carlos Ghioldi,
Luisa Fernandez Ordonez,
Leon Ferrari,
Diego Fontanet,
Caio Franca,
Belisaio Franca,
Leonhardt Frank Duch,
Gang,
Daniel Garcia,
Emilio Garcia Wehbl,
Carlos Gatica,
Guillermo Giampietro,
Eduardo Gil,
Antonio Goncalves Filho,
Eduardo Grossman,
No Grupo,
GAS - TAR - Grupo de Arte Socialista Taller de Arte Revolucionario,
Alberto Harrigan,
Archivo Hasenberg Quaretti,
Denise Henriques Assis Trindade,
Walter Heynowski,
Eps Huayco,
Roberto Jacoby,
Eduardo Kac,
Guillermo Kexel,
Roman Lamas,
Pablo Lassansky,
Pedro Lemebel,
Carlos Leppe,
Alejandro Leroux,
Elena Llosa,
Guillermo Loiacono,
Eduardo Longoni,
Marcos Lopez,
Kena Lorenzini,
Colectivo Los Bestias,
Emmanuel Lubezki,
Gordoloui Luis Alfonso,
Oscar Malca,
Luis Manetti,
Mario Manusia,
Markito Marcus Vinicius Resende Goncalves,
Liliana Maresca,
El Marinero Turco,
Alfredo Marquez,
Meire Martins,
Andre Martirani,
Poetas Mateistas,
Ney Matogrosso,
Glauco Mattoso,
Monica Mayer,
Gianni Mestichelli,
Solidarte Mexico,
Leila Micollis,
Marcelo Montecino,
Alejandro Montoya,
Movimiento 19 de Abril,
Horacio Mucci,
Nelson Munoz Mera,
Paula Natoli,
Luis Navarro Vega,
Carlos Negro Tirabassi,
Anjeles Negros,
Taller Nn,
Novissimo,
Glexis Novoa,
Domingo Ocarranza Bouet,
Ruben Ortiz Torres,
Alvaro Oyarzun,
Clemente Padin,
Esteban Pages,
Hernan Parada,
Sergio Peo,
Roberto Pera,
J Perez,
Antonio Perez,
Periferico de Objetos ,
Nestor Perlongher,
Gustavo Piccinini,
Piri,
Dea Pompa,
Mujeres Por La Vida,
Joan Prim,
Hector Puchi Vazquez,
Olkar Ramirez,
Jaime Razuri,
Richiger,
Picun Roberto Barandalla,
Adrian Rocha Novoa,
Herbert Rodriguez,
Miguel Angel Rojas,
Rolf y Heidi,
Gustavo Romano,
Karto Romero,
Juan Carlos Romero,
Manga Rosa,
H Rosas,
Lotty Rosenfeld,
Enrique Rosito,
Vicente Ruiz,
Pablo Salas,
Osvaldo Salerno,
Santiago,
Daniel Santiago,
Gerhard Scheumann,
Dario Schvarzstein,
Mario Sergio Conti,
Edward Shaw,
Lucio Solari,
Julieta Steimberg,
Sylvia Suarez,
TIC - Taller de Investigaciones Cinematograficas,
TIM - Taller de Investigaciones Musicales,
TIT - Taller de Investigaciones Teatrales,
Alfredo Tavara,
Braulio Tavares,
Mapa Teatro Laboratorio de Artistas,
Teleanalisis,
Toledo,
Carlos Troncoso,
Marco Ugarte Atala,
Daniel Veronese,
Ral Veroni,
Vsp Viajou Sem Passaporte,
Enrique Viegas,
Horacio Villalobos,
Carlos Villoldo,
Vitao,
Vv Aa Post Nn,
Enrique Wong,
Dani Yako,
Las Yeguas Del Apocalipsis,
Tim Yohannan,
Sergio Zevallos,
Silvio Zuccheri
curator
press release
Losing the human form evokes an image of the 1980s in Latin America that establishes a counterpoint between the effects of violence on bodies and the radical experiments in freedom and transformation which impugned the repressive order. Stricken bodies / mutant bodies. Between horror and festivity, the materials gathered show not only the consequences of mass disappearances and massacres under dictatorial régimes, states of siege and internal wars, but also various collective urges to devise modes of existing in a permanent state of revolution.
The exhibition points out the multiple and simultaneous appearance of new ways of making art and politics in different parts of Latin America in the 1980s. It presents the results of an ongoing research project, conducted under the auspices of Red Conceptualismos del Sur, whose first phase has concentrated on certain episodes in the Southern Cone, Brazil and Peru, with the inclusion of some individual case studies in Mexico, Colombia and Cuba. The historical period under consideration begins in 1973, the year of Pinochet’s coup d’état in Chile, and continues up to 1994, when the Zapatista movement inaugurates a new cycle of protests that relaunches activism at an international level. The period corresponds to the consolidation of neoliberalism as a new hegemony, the demise of the real socialisms and the crisis of the traditional left.
The exhibition renders this panorama complex by retrieving experiments which suggested forms of resistance through fragile supports like serigraphy, performance, video, poetic action, experimental theatre and participative architecture. These practices can be grouped into three main areas. The first is visual politics, driven by social movements like the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina and Mujeres por la Vida (‘Women for Life’) in Chile. The second is acts of sexual disobedience, which include experiences of transvestism and corporalities that defy the traditional construction of genre. The last is the underground scene, which used music, partying and the “do-it-yourself” ethic to construct microcommunities and so make it possible to re-establish the social ties broken by terror.
All these experiments led to a loss of the human form, tensing and warping the humanist concept of the subject, and gave rise to new subjectivities that meant a crisis for familiar modes of existence and a transformation in ways of understanding and engaging in politics.
Organized by:
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional y Desarrollo (AECID)
Curatorship:
Red Conceptualismos del Sur
Exhibition Tour:
Museo de Arte de Lima, MALI (November 23, 2013 - February 23, 2014), Museo de la Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires, Argentina, MUNTREF (20 May - 17 August, 2014).