Artistic experiences at the end of the last Argentine dictatorship: between the local and the international

Abstract

At the beginning of the 1980s, while the exhaustion of the last Argentine dictatorship began, some groups of artists whose material and symbolic practices questioned the artistic field and, in certain cases, the social macro- cosm, gained visibility. In this article a slightly studied case is reconstructed: the Grouping for the Development of Visual Experiences. In the first three sections, the ges- tation of the group in the city of Córdoba is investigated, within the context of national cultural policy, when they achieved a workshop and made a foundational exhibi- tion. Afterwards, a reading is rehearsed, in a sociological key of “structures of feelings”, of experiences where they converged: crafts, cinema, sculpture, photography, environment, literature and painting. Finally, nine trajec- tories of artists accrediting local and international net- works are explored. To undertake this research, a trans- disciplinary approach to Cultural History was used, as well as the analysis of various written, oral and visual documents.