Another Mapping of Art and Politics

ANA LONGONI

Decolonising Archives

L'Internationale On Line

Lugar: Ghent; Año: 2016; p. 25 - 31

Faced with the pressing need to critically influencethe current situation, RedCSur upholds an ethicaland political commitment to the revaluation ofall archives on critical artistic practices from LatinAmerica (placing particular stress on those from theperiod spanning the 1970s and 1980s), which, due totheir material conditions, are placed in a precariousposition, or are dispersed and cannot be consultedpublicly. We set out to defend their inalienable state ?namely, their integrity and indivisibility ? to generateconditions for their preservation and their availabilityfor consultation by all interested parties, in additionto fostering their local registration wherever experiencesoccur that are encompassed in the archiveby way of alliances with public institutions with anunflinching commitment to the same principles.