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Southern Irruptions: New Forms  of Artistic Political Antagonism in  Latin America

Guest Editors: Miguel A López and Ana Longoni

 This issue explores several antagonistic and utopian art practices in Latin America from the 1960s to the 1980s. Increasing political radicalisation, shot through with modernising impulses, was interrupted by repressive regimes. Various political aesthetic initiatives (visual, graphic or performative) and forms of artistic resistance arose to redefine their modes of action in the public sphere. These strategies created alternative networks of exchange outside the institutional channels and became collective survival tactics against terror. These practices can now be seen as a renewed political imagination apart from any orthodoxy. Southern Irruptions presents forms of critical and dissident art which until today were poorly documented or practically unknown. The texts frame the discussion on political memory in Latin America which has driven the research group ‘Red Conceptualismos del Sur’ since 2007, and bring together new research, documents and conversations with the participants themselves that offer a new reading of those decades of profound social change.

Available free online at:

http://www.tercertexto.org/revista/numero-actual-2/edicion-2

 

TERCER TEXTO AIMS

There is always a certain level of marginality in the cultural field, particularly in those practices that question received wisdom, in other words in the most experimental and critical practices. Tercer Texto sets out to intellectually inquire into what is happening in the world regardless of geographical, social or cultural provenance. This is not an easy task since culture of this type is usually inaccessible and requires a great deal of research and access to little-known sources. The antithesis of this discourse is to be found in culture at its most visible, which is usually the most consumed. This is not unique to global cities in the developed nations; it also occurs in every city, even the poorest, that seeks to emulate the developed world or become part of it. The illusion, sometimes mistaken for dialogue, that by consuming their cultures it is possible to come to resemble the developed countries, brings about drastic changes in consumption that make local cultural expressions less visible. These local expressions are vital if we are to interpret and contextualise our reality. This situation is even more complex if we consider the Latin-American context, where at times we are more aware of what is going on culturally in Europe or the United States than of what is happening in the neighbouring countries of Latin America.

Tercer Texto is a sister journal to Third Text, which means that this Spanish language version consists partly of texts originally published in Third Text translated into Spanish. However Tercer Texto also brings together original articles and has its own editorial and advisory committees. Tercer Texto therefore aspires to generate new possibilities for reflection while taking into account the invaluable experience generated by Third Text, allowing a dialogue to take place between the two journals.

Tercer Texto is an online academic journal in Spanish, which focuses particularly on the discourse around theory, criticism and culture in Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and Africa, as well as that of the centres (and peripheries) of Europe and North America.