Visual Arts in an international theatrical festival of 1984. A city moved by the last dictatorship and the return of democracy: Córdoba, Argentina

Abstract

This article explores a set of visual arts works exhibited in the Latin American Theater Festival held in the city of Córdoba in 1984. We will verify that these artworks were coordinated by the Association for the Development of Visual Experiences counting on official and private sponsorship. There converged more than thirty artists of different ages, claimant artworks and a huge audience. The main hypothesis holds that this scenario was the product and the producer of a situation of discontinuities and networks between unstable pairs that touched Córdoba (and Argentina): dictatorship and democracy, grief and joy, absences and presences, artistic fields and context, theater and fine arts, street and museum, localism and internationalism, traditions and disruptions. Through a transdisciplinary approach of Cultural History we will analyze those practices that changed spaces, objects and subjects. This research is based on the survey and triangulation of written, visual and oral historical sources.