Sabotage Art

Sophie Halart is a Visiting Teaching Fellow at the Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago de Chile and a Teaching Fellow at University College London, UK, where she received her PhD on contemporary women artists in the Southern Cone. Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra is Lecturer in History of Art at Birkbeck, University of London, UK and received her PhD in Latin American Cultural Studies from the University of Cambridge, UK.

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Introduction Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra and Sophie Halart

Part I: Ensnaring, Burning, Trespassing: Material Sabotage
1. Marta Minujin’s Self-Sabotage: From Existentialism to Counterculture Catherine Spencer
2. Shaman, Thespian, Saboteur: Marcos Kurtycz and the Ritual Poetics of Iconoclasm Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra
3. Pictorial Eviscerations, Emblems, and Self-Immolation in Mexico: Dissensus in the work of Enrique Guzmán and Nahum B. Zenil Erica Segre
4. Bureaucratic Sabotage: Knocking at the door of the ‘Big Monster’ Zanna Gilbert

Part II: Cannons and Canons: Explosive vs. Implosive Postures
5. Cogs and Clogs: Sabotage as Noise in Post-1960s Chilean and Argentine Art and Art History Sophie Halart
6. Impossible Objects: Gabriel Orozco’s Empty Shoe Box and Yielding Stone Natasha Adamou
7. El Museo de la Calle. Art, Economy and the Paradoxes of Bartering Olga Fernández López
8. Stay at Your Own Risk: Disturbing Ideas of Community in Two Projects by Elkin Calderón Carla Macchiavello
9. ‘The Space of Appearance’: Performativity and Aesthetics in the Politicization of Mexico’s Public Sphere Robin Greeley

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