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LATIN AMERICAN AVANT-GARDE - PERFORMANCE ART - POSTCOLONIAL PERSPECTIVES Latin American week in London: November 28th-December 6th 1974 at the I.C.A. Institute of Contemporary Arts
rif. 54982Buenos Aires: CAyC June 28 1974. Octavo 21.5 × 15.8 cm. Original staple-stitched wrappers with photomontage; 16 pp. with numerous reproductions of artworks and photographic pictures of performances as well as theater and dance pieces. Very good. Catalog for the exhibition "Latin American week in London" which gave an overview of the current projects from the region that emerged as a result of the CAyC and pursued the "Arte de sistemas" approach. CAyC addressed an extraordinarily broad spectrum of contemporary positions and genres of contemporary art at the time different systems. These included artists from Conceptual Art Arte Povera Concrete Art and Poetry Op Art Land Art Fluxus Mail Art Cybernetic Art Installation Art Process Art etc. System aesthetics" endeavored to unite the widest possible spectrum. "Arte de Sistemas" was the attempt to realize and depict an understanding of interacting systems in a context. The systems theorist and artist Jack Burnham whose texts in the magazine "Artforum" played a decisive role in shaping the concept of systems aesthetics had a formative theoretical influence on this. One of his theories was that art functions as a kind of "information processing device" that mediates between natural phenomena and cultural phenomena. Cf. entry for the CAyC Newsletter 1971 / GT-54 on the page "CAYC Files" htt ps://ic aa.mfah .o rg Thus the catalog presents a different project on each double-page spread. One example is the Grupo de Teatro del Encuentro a theater group that was part of the CAyC's activities in 1973-74. The Argentinean theater director and playwright Alejo Piovano was its leader. The performance artists were influenced by political and experimental theater. In contrast to classical bourgeois theater the actors were interested in a ritual quality. Accordingly the catalog does not speak of a play but of a "ceremony" as a "presentation of myth". Cf. Verónica Tejeiro entry for the CAyC Newsletter 1974 / GT-469 on the page "CAYC Files" https://icaa.mfah.org Furthermore the catalog presents for example a "Round Table" on "Art and culture in the countries if the Third World" "Phono-Visual Performance" Film experimental theater and video art. unknown
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