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Resistance PerformedAn Anthology on Aesthetic Strategies under Repressive Regimes in Latin America

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The publication addresses performative artistic strategies as a lived practice of resistance in Latin American countries such as Argentina, Brazil, and Chile.
At the core of the reflection carried out in Resistance Performed are historical positions that have borne witness to the way people have resisted repressive and dictatorial political systems in Latin America since the 1960s, often jeopardizing their own lives (e.g. 3Nós3, Elías Adasme, Lenora de Barros, Paulo Bruscky, Antonio Dias, León Ferrari, Gastão de Magalhães, Anna Maria Maiolino, Cildo Meireles, Luis Pazos, Horacio Zabala, Anna Maria Maiolino, Yeguas del Apocalipsis). The intention is to conduct a fresh exploration of the idea of resistance through a dialogue with contemporary positions. Performative strategies have regained significance in contemporary artistic practice in recent years, raising the question of whether these are still viable strategies to undermine hierarchical structures or even change political systems today? The publication includes essays by Rodrigo Alonso, Miguel A. López, Heike Munder, Nelly Richard, and Cristiana Tejo, and reflects on topics such as Argentina and its sociopolitical and interventional aspect; gender issues; collective memory and the notion of body trauma in Latin America; the dictatorship in Chile; and ephemeral art, more specifically Mail art.
Works by 3Nós3, Elías Adasme, Sonia Andrade, Martha Araújo, Lenora de Barros, Paulo Bruscky, CADA (Colectivo Acciones de Arte), Luis Camnitzer, Graciela Carnevale, Antonio Caro, Antonio Dias, Eugenio Dittborn, León Ferrari, Nicolás Franco, Anna Bella Geiger, Grupo de Arte Callejero, Graciela Gutiérrez Marx, Voluspa Jarpa, Gastão de Magalhães, Anna Maria Maiolino, Antonio Manuel, Cildo Meireles, Marta Minujin, Carlos Motta, Letícia Parente, Luis Pazos, Pedro Reyes, Lotty Rosenfeld, Yeguas del Apocalipsis, Horacio Zabala, Sergio Zevallos.

Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, from November 21, 2015, to February 7, 2016.
Edited by Heike Munder.
Texts by Rodrigo Alonso, Cornelia Huth, Miguel A. López, Heike Munder, Tobias Peper, Nelly Richard, Cristiana Tejo, Stefanie Wenger.
 
published in December 2015
English edition
20,8 x 27,5 cm (hardcover)
224 pages (205 color & b/w ill.)
 
48.00
 
ISBN : 978-3-03764-446-1
EAN : 9783037644461
 
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