Archive to the Left

"Let them call our work propaganda, terrorism, or guerilla warfare. We hope to be able to participate in all this and even if we´re unsucessful, at least there is more creativeness, more life more love in the mere attempt than in all the ´works of art´which only serve to lull the mind and sensibility."
Coordinating Committee of the Revolutionary Imagination, Buenos Aires 1969

From the archives on Tucuman Arde at CeDINCI. Spent the day at this space which holds an amazing archive on movements, history, philosophy, literary production of the left. In ´68 in protest to the censorship of an artwork in a show on the avante garde, called "Experiencia 68" organized at the Del Di Tella Institute, artists burnt, destroyed and threw work into the streets in protest. After this show artists formed a collective and decided to abandon art institutions and work in solidarity with social movements. This collective spent time in a province in Argentina called Tucuman. working with the local population, they produced photo murals, handwritten signs, banners, tape recordings,films, slideshows, distriuted flyerersand encouraged dialogue in an exhibit called Tucuman Arde which transformed an exhibit into a political act. Police shut down the show and the collective decides to operate in both a legal framework and in a clandestine manner as a strategy to prevent the suppression of their work.


http://www.cedinci.org/principal.html