Pensar su tiempo, deshilvanar el orden social. Thinking his time, unraveling the social order

ANA LIZA BUGNONE

Buenos Aires

Congreso; Second ISA Forum of Sociology; 2012

International Sociological Association

Edgardo Antonio Vigo was a plastic artist who used different technologies and forms of expression, as visual poetry, urban performances, mail art, the writing of manifests and other texts, as well as the edition of magazines, between other activities. Vigo produced his poetics in key of rebelliousness of his time, specially between ' 60s and ' 70s, but his revolt passed also externally of the stereotype most consolidated for the epoch. The work of Vigo takes again some procedures of the avant-gardes, as utilization of the ready made, use of alternative spaces of production and diffusion of his works, almost complete abandon of the format of picture. It is interested in thinking in this paper of what way this appropriation of technologies and previous procedures, combines with another directed break not only to the artistic system, but also to the social order. In this respect, the work of Vigo thinks his time. As well as he used certain events of political national and international relevancy, also realized a new operation in his work: the utilization of the judicial - administrative speech. There are analyzed in this work some of its uses in artistic actions. We conclude in that it was a question of a matter that he would incorporate in his poetics to denaturalize it of the original aristocratic and specific place. In this respect, he takes an aspect of the functioning of the social order separating it from its normal place and, on having offered it to all across artistic actions, allows an off-centre appropriation, out of the limits imposed by its nature.