Marta Minujín and two iconic groups recover the memory of performative art

Ephemeral and poorly documented. Those would be two words, among others, with which we can talk about performative art. And the issue of documentation, precisely, is the key on which it has been working for four years. Argentina Performance Artwho organize two talks to enrich knowledge about this discipline, together with representatives of the Debris Grouphe Fosa Group and Marta Minujin.

This third edition of Series of Conferences on Performance Art Argentina It will take place at the Recoleta Cultural Center on Tuesday, August 9 and 16, and is aimed at artists, students, curators, researchers, critics, historians and the general public interested in this language.

“We are the first platform for theoretical research, heritage and National Archive of performance in Argentina. In other words, there is nothing similar, similar, or relative in the entire territory, so we have been working on this task for four years,” he explains. Natasha Voliakovskydirector of Argentina Performance Art and performance artist.

“The idea of ​​the conferences is to generate the oral archive, which would be like all this anecdote that the artists who are still alive have, share it with the audience and make it more popular, more accessible, because this way people who perhaps do not have any training access it. academic or university,” he comments and adds: “Because performance is often chosen by low-income people or, well, I even had to choose it at the time because I did not have the resources to do more traditional visual arts, such as painting, drawing. or sculpture engraving”

Thus, this first day will feature the presentation of Hector Puppofrom Grupo Escombros, and Ada Suarez and Sandra Botnerwho were part of the Fosa Group.

Debris was a collective formed at the end of 1988 in the city of La Plata, which in its beginnings was made up of the artists Luis Pazos, Héctor Puppo, Angélica Converti, Raúl García Luna and Oscar Plascencia.

His works were focused on criticism of the social, political and economic reality of post-dictatorship Argentina, and almost all of them were developed in public spaces using multiple media: actions, installations, manifestos, murals, objects, posters, poems, engravings. , talks, visual poems, graffiti, postcards.

For his part, the Fosa Group was a collective that emerged in the mid-90s and was made up of Sandra Botner, Claudio Braier, Norberto José Martínez, Cecilia Nazar, Javier Sobrino, Ada Suarez and Anabel Vanoni, who in their productions focused on simultaneous, durational and installed performances. , also dabbling in video art and video installations, with the social and political context characterized by the superficiality and banality of the decade.

“Both groups were outstanding leaders of collective artistic creation during the ’80s and ’90s,” says Voliakovsky.

The second day will have the presence of the artist Marta Minujinpioneer of conceptual art and performance art in the country. Since the ’60s, as part of the emblematic Di Tella, and during his career in New York and Paris, Minujín made a series of happenings, performances, installations and soft sculptures that are a fundamental part of contemporary art.

“There is something about Marta that although she is recognized, her work is not known in depth and although her most famous works are La Menesunda or her colorful mattresses or the fractions of celebrity.land, she really made a very important contribution to Argentina with all his performance and happening works. So we are going to review all that with her,” says Voliakovsky, who will be the moderator of both meetings.

Both days will be organized in three instances: an initial conference, during which each guest will develop their thematic axis; Then there will be a debate between the speakers, thus seeking a crossover between both thematic axes; Finally, a space for exchange and questions will be opened between the guests and the public.

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