AN INDISPENSABLE REFLECTION ON WHAT WAS DONE AND WHAT REMAINS TO BE DONE IN THE SOCIAL FIELDS OF ART AND REVOLUTION
Grupo de Arte Callejero: Thought, Practices, and Actions tells the profound story of social militancy and art in Argentina over the last two decades and propels it forward. For Grupo de Arte Callejero [Group of Street Artists], militancy and art blur together in the anonymous, collective, everyday spaces and rhythms of life. Thought, Practices, and Actions offers an indispensable reflection on what was done and what remains to be done in the social fields of art and revolution.
Every new utopian struggle that emerges must to some extent be organized on the knowledge of its precedents. From this perspective, Grupo de Arte Callerjo situates their experience in a network of previous and subsequent practices that based more on popular knowledge than on great theories. Their work does not elaborate a dogma or a model to follow, but humbly expresses their interventions within Latin American autonomous politics as a form of concrete, tangible support so that knowledge can be generalized and politicized by a society in movement.
Without a doubt this will not be the most exhaustive book that can be written on the GAC, nor the most complete, nor the most acute and critical, but it is the one GAC wanted to write for themselves.
Joining us virtually from Buenos Aires for a webinar with Grupo de Arte Callejero, who will discuss their 23-yearlong practice of making art in the context of Argentine social movements in conversation with Solana Chehtman, a New York–based cultural producer, arts administrator, and philanthropy officer and consultant with experience in her country of origin, Argentina, and internationally.
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This free and virtual event is part of Moore College of Art & Design's ongoing Conversations@Moore public program series, organized by the Graduate Studies programs in Socially Engaged Art.
This edition of Conversations@Moore takes place in conjunction with the release of A Blade of Grass Magazine Issue 5, available free online on October 5. The magazine, themed “Confronting Enemies,” features an excerpt from the book Grupo de Arte Callejero: Thoughts, Practices, and Actions (Common Notions, October 2019), which was first published in Spanish in 2009 and is reprinted with permission. This book was translated by Mareada Rosa Translation Collective.