Resistance Performed: An Anthology on Aesthetic Strategies Under Repressive Regimes in Latin America - Hardcover

by Heike Munder (Editor), Rodrigo Alonso (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Cornelia Huth (Text by (Art/Photo Books))

This publication addresses performative artistic strategies as a lived practice of resistance in Latin American countries such as Argentina, Brazil and Chile, from the 1960s on. At its core are those artists who have contested repressive political systems, often jeopardizing their own lives: for example, 3N s3, El as Adasme, Sonia Andrade, Martha Ara jo, Lenora de Barros, Paulo Bruscky, Colectivo Acciones de Arte, Luis Camnitzer, Graciela Carnevale, Antonio Caro, Antonio Dias, Eugenio Dittborn, Le n Ferrari, Nicol s Franco, Anna Bella Geiger, Grupo de Arte Callejero, Graciela Guti rrez Marx, Voluspa Jarpa, Gast o de Magalh es, Anna Maria Maiolino, Antonio Manuel, Cildo Meireles, Pedro Reyes, Lotty Rosenfeld, Yeguas del Apocalipsis, Horacio Zabala and Sergio Zevallos. Essays discuss topics such as gender issues, Chile's dictatorship and mail art.