Full Description
Sabotage is the deliberate disruption of a dominant system, be it political, military or economic. Yet in recent decades, sabotage has also become an artistic strategy most notably in Latin America. In Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Chile and Argentina, artists are producing radical, unruly or even iconoclastic work that resists state violence, social conformity and the commodification of art.
Sabotage Art reveals how contemporary Latin American artists have resorted to sabotage strategies as a means to bridge the gap between aesthetics and politics. The global status of and market for Latin American art is growing rapidly. This book is essential reading for those who want to understand this new, dissident work, as well as its mystification, co-option and commercialization within current academic historiographies and art-world curatorial initiatives.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra and Sophie Halart
Part I: Ensnaring, Burning, Trespassing: Material Sabotage
1. Marta Minujin's Self-Sabotage: From Existentialism to Counterculture Catherine Spencer
2. Shaman, Thespian, Saboteur: Marcos Kurtycz and the Ritual Poetics of Iconoclasm Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra
3. Pictorial Eviscerations, Emblems, and Self-Immolation in Mexico: Dissensus in the work of Enrique Guzmán and Nahum B. Zenil Erica Segre
4. Bureaucratic Sabotage: Knocking at the door of the 'Big Monster' Zanna Gilbert
Part II: Cannons and Canons: Explosive vs. Implosive Postures
5. Cogs and Clogs: Sabotage as Noise in Post-1960s Chilean and Argentine Art and Art History Sophie Halart
6. Impossible Objects: Gabriel Orozco's Empty Shoe Box and Yielding Stone Natasha Adamou
7. El Museo de la Calle. Art, Economy and the Paradoxes of Bartering Olga Fernández López
8. Stay at Your Own Risk: Disturbing Ideas of Community in Two Projects by Elkin Calderón Carla Macchiavello
9. 'The Space of Appearance': Performativity and Aesthetics in the Politicization of Mexico's Public Sphere Robin Greeley
Notes
Index
