Collective Actions-Visual Guerrillas-Spectral Bodies

Abstract

What interests me here is to interweave stories that allow us to establish connections between social and cultural movements in order to approach 1970s collective artistic practices in Mexico as political actions, and also as experimental, participative, and conceptual praxis. This article discusses the category of “cultural” and “visual guerrillas” as a micro-political locus of institutional critique and gives visibility to paradigm shifts through certain collective artistic interventions, which are analysed as founding memories that simultaneously activate the political and the affective dimensons in our present in order to resist public policies of forgetting.