Errorist Kabaret
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| Introduction | Etcetera… was formed in 1997 in Buenos Aires by a group of visual artists, poets, puppeteers and actors, most of whom were under 20 at the time. They all shared the intention of bringing art to the site of immediate social conflict -the streets- and of bringing this conflict into arenas of cultural production, including the media and art institutions. Etcetera… worked closely with the human rights group H.I.J.O.S. (Children for Identity and Justice Against Forgetting and Silence) in developing and popularizing “escraches,” acts of public denunciation that seek a form of social justice not beholden to the state’s legal and judicial institutions. They often work with street art that is by nature ephemeral and circumstantial. They form part of the urban scene as a statement of protest, denunciation or signalling; and as a result it pertains to a specific time and place. In their practice, Etcetera… employ a great sense of humour, poetic discovery and all the destructuring potential they possess to forge a new kind of committed art: free of hackneyed rhetoric and often quite sarcastic and “incorrect”, the results of which are destined to persist in people’s memories. |
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