"Media a la Minujín: some notes" Lecture

Americas Society

poster for "Media a la Minujín: some notes" Lecture

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A lecture in conjunction with the exhibition Marta Minujín: MINUCODEs.

Speakers: Judi Rodenbeck (Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, Sarah Lawrence College) and Jose Luis Blondet (Co-curator)

About the exhibition: Marta Minujín is a prominent voice of the Argentine neo-avant-garde art scene of the 1960s and 70s, with a brilliant international career that helped define the discussion about media, performance, and participation. Minujín is often mentioned as one of the pioneers of happenings.

Marta Minujín’s Minucode (1968), originally commissioned by the Center for Inter-American Relations (now Americas Society), explored social codes in four groups of leading figures in the arts, business, fashion, and politics in New York through a series of cocktail parties/happenings. Deeply interested in Marshall McLuhan’s theories about the mass media, Minujín created an electronic environment with footage and light and sound shows produced during the happenings.

MINUCODEs, organized by Gabriela Rangel and José Luis Blondet, revisits that project more than 40 years later. Through recently recovered footage and documents, the exhibition will shed light on the original mythical event. MINUCODEs, organized by Gabriela Rangel and José Luis Blondet, revisits the project through recently recovered footage and documents.

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March 30, 2010 from 18:00

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