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Index
Cover
Author Bio
Endorsement
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Images
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
References
Part I Material Sabotage: Ensnaring, Burning, Trespassing
1 Entrap, Engulf, Overwhelm: From Existentialism to Counterculture in the Work of Marta Minujín
‘Laying Traps and Dangling Baits’
Subjects into Objects
Countercultural Carnival
References
2 Shaman, Thespian, Saboteur: Marcos Kurtycz and the Ritual Poetics of Institutional Profanation
Potlatch
A System of Giving
Letter Bombing
Serialized Incineration
… by Way of Proximity
References
3 Pictorial Eviscerations, Emblems and Self-Immolation in Mexico: Dissensus in the Work of Enrique Guzmán and Nahum B. Zenil
I. Insubordination
II. Decorum
III. Self-Immolation
IV. Sabotage
The Poetics of the Razor Blade
¡Oh Santa Bandera!: Civic Decorum, Disrespect and Dissensus
Coda: `The same indocile innocence’
References
4 Bureaucratic Sabotage: Knocking at the Door of the ‘Big Monster’
Systems Art and Bureaucratic Systems
The Big Monster
Tactic I: Trickery and Stealth
Tactic II: Ridicule, Jam and Infest the System
Tactic III: Disruption and Overidentification
Administered Society and the Body
References
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
Interrupted Flows: Neo-Avant-Garde Art in Chile and Argentina
Political Orthodoxy and Committed Artists
Argentine Mass Media Art and (Anti-)Happenings
CADA and the Chilean Escena de Avanzada
Latin American Conceptualism: Sabotaging Art History?
The Saboteur Saboté or the Limits of Art as Subversive Practice
The End of Mass Media Art and Tucumán Arde
NO +
Conceptualism, Inc.
Global Art and Local Re-Readings
References
6 Impossible Objects: Gabriel Orozco’s Empty Shoe Box and Yielding Stone
Empty Shoe Box
Yielding Stone
The Found Object
Surrealist Legacies in Latin America
References
7 El Museo de la Calle : Art, Economy and the Paradoxes of Bartering
Bartering at El Cartucho
From the Aesthetics of Hunger to the Aestheticization of Poverty
Collecting, Representing: Paths and Diversions
References
8 Stay at Your Own Risk: Disturbing Ideas of Community in Two Projects by Elkin Calderón
A Participative Community Can Be Risky as Well…
References
9 ‘The Space of Appearance’: Performativity and Aesthetics in the Politicization of Mexico’s Public Sphere
References
Notes
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