förskola
Atalante
CONTEMPORARY ART VIDEOS FROM ARGENTINA
Date
November 17th, at 7pm.
Artists
Gabriela Golder
Gaston Duprat and Mariano Cohn
Luciana Lamothe
Eugenia Calvo
Alicia Herrero
During a visit to Buenos Aires we collected video works by six Argentine artists, which mainly refer (directly or indirectly) to the national traumas that have afflicted Argentina. This includes the disappearances, torture and murder of 30,000 alleged supporters of the left, as well as the financial crisis of 2001, the outcome of a failed experiment in extreme neo-liberal economic policy. The works that do not directly depict these events can nevertheless be interpreted against this shared political background.
The screening at Atalante starts with a brief introduction to significant political events in the recent history of Argentina. The artists shown are:
Gabriela Golder - the most well-known of her videos being Vacas - showing how, after a transport lorry bound for the slaughterhouse crashed and tipped over outside Rosario, the villagers come up on the road, kill the surviving cows, cut them up and carry away the stolen meat.
Gaston Duprat and Mariano Cohn - using the resources from their jobs at a television studio to produce videos of high technical quality, with the works often parodying the formats of documentary and interview, reflecting macro political events in daily-life stories of single individuals: an old man is happily going through the instruction manual of his newly-bought video camera, while on a television set in the background the president of the country is escaping in a helicopter after the financial crisis has reached boiling-point.
Luciana Lamothe - videos of directionless urban revenge fantasies, episodic acts of vandalism attempting to evolve into an art form.
Eugenia Calvo - hiding, blowing up decorations, and building a barricade inside an upper middleclass home in the film An Ambitious Plan.
Alicia Herrero - video archives documenting three months of activities in her neighbourhood San Cristobal, where artists formed collectives and started working in the service of the social movements of 2001, blurring the borders between art and activism. Demonstrations, meetings, protest-actions, outing the perpetrators of militarist violence, the workers taking over the textile factory Brukmans etc. Alicia’s archives will be running continuously on two monitors in the lobby, outside the room where the screening takes place.
Kalle Brolin & Kristina Müntzing
Curators/initiators
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