A favourite piece of art

Well, In the art I like the pieces with politic critiques as the pieces of Santiago Sierra. But, in this occasion I 'm going to talk about "Tucuman Arde", a piece of art created the year 1968 in Rosario, Argentina, for a multidisciplinary colective. The members were artists, sociologists, students, etc. 

In this time, Argentina lived a dictatorship that closed the factorys in Tucuman. It generated poverty of the workers and their families that the mass media not informed. Waht's more, the artists were exploring the limits of arts, questioning the art's institution. In this context, this colective decided to use the situation grave of Tucuman peolple for criticise the dictatorship as the art.

The piece consisted of 3 parts. In the first part, a group of the colective went to Tucuman from Rosario for meet the reality politics and social of the people. There they filmed, interviewed, photographed and surveied to the jobless, children and women, documents for a exposition in a sindical place. Meanwhile in Rosario, other group did propaganda in the street for a week with stencil that only said "Tucuman Arde" and also they pasted poster that said " 1º bienal de arte de vanguardia". Then this week of propaganda, in a sindical seat  they inaugurated the exposition. All the walls had photograph, information of desnutrition of childrens, etc. Also served coffee without sugar. The exhibition dured two weeks and was very successful.

This work I knew in a subject oh latinoamercan art. I liked because it is in a delicate limit between the art and the political, a uncomfortable space.