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Publié à l'occasion de l'exposition présentée au Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst à Zürich, du 21 novembre 2015 au 7 février 2016<br/>

Artistes exposés : 3Nós3, Eliás Adasme, Sonia Andrade, Martha Araújo, Lenora de Barros, Paulo Bruscky, Colectivo Acciones de Arte (CADA), Luis Camnitzer, Graciela Carnevale, Antonio Caro, Antonio Dias, Eugenio Dittborn, León Ferrari, Nicolás Franco, Anna Bella Geiger, Grupo de Arte Callejero (GAC), Graciela Gutiérrez Marx, Voluspa Jarpa, Gastão de Magalhães, Anna Maria Maiolino, Antonio Manuel, Cildo Meireles, Marta Minujín, Carlos Motta, Letícia Parente, Luis Pazos, Pedro Reyes, Lotty Rosenfeld, Yeguas del Apocalipsis, Horacio Zabala, Sergio Zevallos<br/>

Depuis les années 1960 et au cœur de pays comme l'Argentine, le Brésil et le Chili, de nombreux artistes ont manifesté leur résistance face aux régimes dictatoriaux et répressifs à travers la pratique, souvent risquée, de la performance (3Nós3, Elías Adasme, Lenora de Barros, Paulo Bruscky, Antonio Dias, León Ferrari, Gastão de Magalhães, Anna Maria Maiolino, Cildo Meireles, Luis Pazos, Horacio Zabala, Anna Maria Maiolino, Yeguas del Apocalipsis...). Resistance Performed revient sur l'usage de stratégies performatives comme moyen de déstabilisation hiérarchique et politique et pose la question de leur actualité à l'heure où la performance est redevenue un outil de création légitime.<br/>

This publication addresses performative artistic strategies as a lived practice of resistance in Latin American countries such as Argentina, Brazil and Chile, from the 1960s on. At its core are those artists who have contested repressive political systems, often jeopardizing their own lives: for example, 3Nós3, Elías Adasme, Sonia Andrade, Martha Araújo, Lenora de Barros, Paulo Bruscky, Colectivo Acciones de Arte, Luis Camnitzer, Graciela Carnevale, Antonio Caro, Antonio Dias, Eugenio Dittborn, León Ferrari, Nicolás Franco, Anna Bella Geiger, Grupo de Arte Callejero, Graciela Gutiérrez Marx, Voluspa Jarpa, Gastão de Magalhães, Anna Maria Maiolino, Antonio Manuel, Cildo Meireles, Pedro Reyes, Lotty Rosenfeld, Yeguas del Apocalipsis, Horacio Zabala and Sergio Zevallos. Essays discuss topics such as gender issues, Chile's dictatorship and mail art<br/>

"Resistance Performed. An Anthology on Aesthetic Srategies in Latin America presents stratagems artists devised to articulate dissent. The focus is on historic positions from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, and Uruguay since the late 1960s that bear witness to how oppositionists worked--and often risked their lives--to offer resistance to Latin America's repressive political systems. The anthology highlights strategies of linguistic self-empowerment in the formats of performance art, interventions, and actions as practices of resistance. These pieces are presented in dialogue with works by contemporary artists from Central and South America who address the repercussions and lingering effects of dictatorial regimes"--Publisher's website<br/>