Actividad de uso : body art / coordinación general, Pablo Accinelli, Leandro Tartaglia, Francisco Lemus ; textos, Ana Longoni [and four others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Longoni, Ana, 1967- writer of supplementary textual content.

Lemus, Francisco, 1988- editor.

Tartaglia, Leandro, 1977- editor.

Accinelli, Pablo, 1983- editor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Actividad de uso ; 7

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Body art.

Performance art--Argentina--Buenos Aires--History--21st century.

Performance art.

Arts, Argentine--Argentina--Buenos Aires--21st century.

Arts, Argentine.

Buenos Aires (Argentina)--Social life and customs--21st century.

Buenos Aires (Argentina).

Manners and customs.

Argentina--Buenos Aires.

Physical Description:

158 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits ; 22 cm.

Other Title:

Body art

Place of Publication:

Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires : Actividad de Uso, [2021]

Language Note:

Text in Spanish and English.

Summary:

On the night of Tuesday, October 4, 1988, the Festival Body Art, a contest organized by Roberto Jacoby together with a large group of collaborators in Paladium, emblematic nightclub of the city of Buenos Aires. The slogan: each participant should be produced as a work of art and thus obtain their "15 seconds of fame". The winners, chosen by a jury and by the applause of the public, would take 200 dollars of prize. With the disco nightclub transformed into a "dance museum", the "Body Art" offered an experience in which the social and the artistic merged to account for the horizon of possibilities offered by an era, inscribing themselves in the bodies with a vitality that knew how to capture the tone of a sensibility to come. In the abyss of the eighties, Body Art was the prelude to an irreverent exercise of difference that broke not only into artistic practices, but also into ways of thinking about the emancipation of bodies and the politics of institutions. This book was conceived in line with these modes of collective doing. Activity of use invited us to make a publication that transmits the sensations of that night, as well as its contemporaneity. Essays, historical texts, photographs, documents and a compilation of testimonies of those who were there make up this book. His images allow us to spy on that hectic experience whose resonances insist, until today, on devising other futures.

Contents:

Museo Bailable / Ana Longoni

Con el arte en el cuerpo / Daniela Lucena, Ana Gisela Laboureau, Francisco Lemus

Archivo: la última fiesta de los ochenta / Valeria Garrote

De body art a nobody / Jorge Di Paola

Crepúsculo de corpúsculos: la noche / Martín Caparrós

La generación del 80 / María Moreno

Testimonios

Biografías

English texts.

Notes:

Cover from title.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9789878696621

9878696626

OCLC:

1317280191