"Tucumán Arde" in e-misférica 8.1

We are happy to announce that our home page will be regularly featuring content from different Hemispheric Institute projects, such as the Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library (HIDVL), e-misférica, our Scalar publications and others. To inaugurate this series, and to honor the enormously creative social movements of the past year, we begin with Tucumán arde/Tucumán is Burning, a video produced by Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires), Academia de Sur (Buenos Aires), Queens Museum of Art (New York), Fundacion Antorchas (Buenos Aires) in 1999, and featured in “Performance ≠ Life” issue of e-misférica (8.1) courtesy of El Museo del Barrio.

Tucumán arde was a project created in 1968 by the "Committee for Artistic Action" associated with the Argentine General Confederation of Labor; these artists created two important “exhibition-condemnations” in Rosario and in Buenos Aires, focused on exposing the social and economic crisis then unfolding in the northern province of Tucumán; the state had closed the region's sugar refineries and weakened its unions, resulting not in promised modernization but instead in unprecedented poverty and unemployment.

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