Argentina Ahora: A Movement Beyond Politics

An exhibit featuring photos, words, films and posters documenting a nation's collapse and a people's creative response. The work of photographers from the Buenos Aires based art & media collective Argentina Arde, as well as independent photographers from New York and Seattle, displayed with narrative text excerpts and a selection of posters and street art.

About This Tour
This exhibit was first curated for display from April 13 to May 9, 2002, at the gallery of the Seattle Independant Media Center, in downtown Seattle, Wa.

A sister exhibit and screening took place in Washington D.C. and prints from the show were sent to be part of an Italian exposition.

This exhibit was then boxed up and toured to Manhattan and Queens, some stops in California, then Canada to coincide with the gathering against the G8, with a few other stops in between. We aren't sure where it is now, but Andrew Stern would know.

Videos

1. Argentinazo
(Jan. 2002, Ojo Obrero, 19 minutes)
2. Ventevideo 19th and 20th
(Jan. 2002, Ventevideo video, 10 minutes)
Both of these films pull together footage from the
streets of Buenos Aires on the 19th and 20th of
December 2001. These days saw 30 people murdered and
sparked a people's movement in Argentina that forced 5
governments from power in 2 weeks.
3. Beware the Bourgeois Bloc-
(April 2002, We Are Everywhere/PWI Prod., 12 minutes)
Documents the impassioned hijinks of the ahorristas, an uprising of middle class people who stroll through the financial district of Buenos Aires attacking banks.
4. Big Noise Shorts
(Jan-March 2002, Big Noise Tactical, 5 minutes apiece)
1) cacerolazo in the rain 2) piquete 3) land takeover/factory takeover
Single subject shorts about stated titles.

Some of the Artists

Argentina Arde
Argentina Arde is a working media collective of over 120 Argentine
filmmakers, photographers, artists, and journalists who banded together
in the midst of national uprisings throughout the country December of
last year to tell the real story of what was happening in the streets.
The group publishes a weekly newspaper, produces video newsreels, has a
travelling photo exhibition, and posts news to the internet through the
Indymedia-Argentina website. Argentina Arde is helping to build the new
people's movement in Argentina by distributing its materials to the
frontlines; it passes out papers at t local actions and strikes, it
screens its videos at mass protests and has distributed newsreels to
almost 100 neighborhood assemblies in Buenos Aires, and it brings its
growing photo exhibits on request to roadblocks (piquetes) and community
meetings.
Argentina Arde needs your donations to continue and grow its work at
this critical time in Argentina. Support them by coming to the show
and/or making an online donation to IMC-Argentina at
http://argentina.linefeed.org/process/donate.php

Big Noise Films
Big Noise Films is a non-profit media collective dedicated to producing beautiful, politically and culturally challenging films. We imaginatively redeploy new digital technologies to challenge the corporate media monopoly.
http://www.bignoisefilms.com/

Andrew Stern
Andrew Stern is a documentary photographer who has been traveling the world for the past few years working on a variety of projects, including working with street kids in Calcutta and with the Maasai in Kenya, among many other things.  He recently returned from Brazil, Argentina and Bolivia where he was traveling with a caravan of Indymedia activists from around the world who were there to document the wide spectrum of creative resistance blossoming there, as well as to help forge stronger connections between media activist groups of the global south and global north.

Grey Filastine
G. Filastine is an audio artist specializing in the combination of obscure source recordings, odd rhythms, and intrusive sonarchy. His previous work includes ¡TchKunG!, AudioFile Collective, and the Infernal Noise Brigade. He also takes pictures, mostly of ruined ships, but sometimes of riots or weddings.

Raphael Lyon
Raphael Lyon is currently chained to a computer. He is editing a documentary about media issues during the "Crisis" and the fuction of IMC Argentina in the eye of the storm. He welcomes your help. Raphihell@yahoo.com

Further Background Info and Resources

Background Article on Argentina Situation
the situation in Argentina

To see a sneak preview of photos from the show go to:
http://nyc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=25313&group=webcast

Argentina Arde's website:
http://orbita.starmedia.com/argentinaardelp/

For background information on the situation in Argentina
check out this article at:
http://argosy.mta.ca/argosy01-02/03.14.02/13.html

Or read "A Postscript for the Global Anti-Capitalist Movement"
taken from "Que Se Vayan Todos: Argentina’s Popular Rebellion", a beautiful publication with writing by John Jordan, Jennifer Whitney and photography by Andrew Stern at:
http://nologo.org/resources/02/05/07/1341226.shtml

For ongoing coverage of events in Argentina go to:
http://argentina.indymedia.org