Avant-Garde Argentinian Visual Artists Group - Tucumán Burns - 1968

ANA LONGONI

Mousse

Mousse Publishing

Lugar: Roma; Año: 2014 vol. 2 p. 1 - 18

2035-2565

Tucumán Arde (Tucumán Burns), nearly half a century after its opening in 1968, still remains largely unclassifiable. Part information campaign, part research endeavor, part political action, part counter-information exhibition, part collective art happening, part mythical legend, and part abysmal failure, it sought to have a direct impact on the revolutionary process then regarded as imminent by its artist-participants. More has been written about Tucumán Arde than about any other Argentine art event, and it continues to have a surprising capacity to be appropriated by very different arguments, positions, and genealogies, many of which seem to apart themselves from and even contradict the organizers? original and radical intentions. To understand what Tucumán Arde was, to situate it, and to understand why its organizers opted?among the many strategies they employed?for the exhibition as a form in the first place, it is necessary to trace the context of the general political and institutional pressures informing the group?s motivations and their political agenda as artists.