Sabotage Art. Politics and Iconoclasm in Contemporary Latin America

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Sabotage: deliberate disruption of a dominant system, be it political, military or economic. Yet sabotage has also become an artistic strategy – most notably in Latin America. Artists are producing radical, unruly or even iconoclastic work that resists state violence, social conformity and the commodification of art. 'Sabotage art' reveals how contemporary Latin American artists have resorted to ‘sabotage’ strategies to bridge the gap between aesthetics and politics, and seeks to understand the mystification, cooption and commercialisation of this new, dissident work. AcknowledgementsList of Images Introduction Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra and Sophie Halart 7Part I: Ensnaring, Burning, Trespassing: Material Sabotage 1. Marta Minujin's Self-Sabotage: From Existentialism to Counterculture Catherine Spencer 192. Shaman, Thespian, Saboteur: Marcos Kurtycz and the Ritual Poetics of IconoclasmMara Polgovsky Ezcurra 403. Pictorial Eviscerations, Emblems, and Self-Immolation in Mexico: Dissensus in the work of Enrique Guzman and Nahum B. Zenil Erica Segre 634. Bureaucratic Sabotage: Knocking at the door of the 'Big Monster'Zanna Gilbert 69Part II: Cannons and Canons: Explosive vs. Implosive Postures 5. Cogs and Clogs: Sabotage as Noise in Post-1960s Chilean and Argentine Art and Art History Sophie Halart 1146. Impossible Objects: Gabriel Orozco's Empty Shoe Box and Yielding Stone Natasha Adamou 1377. El Museo de la Calle. Art, Economy and the Paradoxes of Bartering Olga Fernandez Lopez 1578. Stay at Your Own Risk: Disturbing Ideas of Community in Two Projects by Elkin Calderon Carla Macchiavello 1779. 'The Space of Appearance': Performativity and Aesthetics in the Politicization of Mexico's Public Sphere Robin Greeley 196Notes on ContributorsIndexImages