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 commercialisation within current academic historiographies and art-world curatorial initiatives."
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Images
Introduction
Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra and Sophie Halart 7
Part I: Ensnaring, Burning, Trespassing: Material Sabotage
1. Marta Minujin's Self-Sabotage: From Existentialism to Counterculture
Catherine Spencer 19
2. Shaman, Thespian, Saboteur: Marcos Kurtycz and the Ritual Poetics of Iconoclasm
Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra 40
3. Pictorial Eviscerations, Emblems, and Self-Immolation in Mexico: Dissensus in the work of Enrique Guzmán and Nahum B. Zenil
Erica Segre 63
4. Bureaucratic Sabotage: Knocking at the door of the 'Big Monster'
Zanna Gilbert 69
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 114
6. Impossible Objects: Gabriel Orozco's Empty Shoe Box and Yielding Stone
Natasha Adamou 137
7. El Museo de la Calle. Art, Economy and the Paradoxes of Bartering
Olga Fernández López 157
8. Stay at Your Own Risk: Disturbing Ideas of Community in Two Projects by Elkin Calderón
Carla Macchiavello 177
9. 'The Space of Appearance': Performativity and Aesthetics in the Politicization of Mexico's Public Sphere
Robin Greeley 196
Notes on Contributors
Index
Images
