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- Title
Hacia una ecología política del arte conceptual: Tucumán Arde e Information, entre el azúcar y el petróleo.
- Authors
Vindel, Jaime; Martínez, Pablo
- Abstract
From the analysis of two collective experiences of conceptual art, Tucumán Arde (1968) and the exhibition Information at MOMA (1970), this article aims to provide through the lens of political ecology a new perspective to the chapter dedicated to conceptualism in the history of art. Despite the differences between the art ecosystems in which both experiences participated, their artists' proposals shared critical elements that can inspire transformations in the discipline of art history that respond to the ecosocial crisis. The connections with sugar in the case of the Argentinean experience and the fossil condition of the artistic institutionality of advanced capitalism in which Information is inscribed confirm the bifronted character (North/South) of energetic modernity and its connections with the artistic experimentations of the avantgarde. The self-managed artists around the Tucuman experience attempted to convert art into information without going through the communication channels and spaces of globalised art. For their part, some of those who participated in the New York show resisted the uncritical and spectacular assimilation of their practices into the institutional machinery at the service of the culture industry, complicit with the market of war and fossil extraction.
- Subjects
NEW York (State); POLITICAL ecology; MUSEUM of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.); INTERSTELLAR communication; CULTURAL industries; CONCEPTUALISM; CAPITALISM; ART history; CONCEPTUAL art; ECOFEMINISM
- Publication
Arte, Individuo y Sociedad, 2024, Vol 36, Issue 2, p445
- ISSN
1131-5598
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5209/aris.91703