Neoliberalism in Argentina

The Impact on The Visual Arts in Their Practices and Pedagogies

Abstract

The work addresses the production of the visual arts from its teaching and learning practices and processes in intersection with neoliberal policies in Argentina. We are interested in identifying how this political doctrine is introduced and the scope it has in the visual arts to date. The route that is proposed is through an interdisciplinary perspective guided by the reading of key authors. Process that allows us to put in tension and / or articulate conceptual universes, practices and territories; intertwined with the social, political and economic context of the country during the nineties and the beginning of the century. To investigate in this analysis, the role of the State, the intervention of the so-called “third sector” and the emergence of private pedagogical projects, such as art clinics (Zuain and Giménez, 2009) and residences (Mellado, 2015; Sepúlveda and Petroni, 2011) in the training and enrollment processes of visual artists. On the other hand, we intend to investigate de-territorialized pedagogies, identifying extractive operations of an epistemic and cultural nature in order to reflect on the conditions of artistic production, in Argentina, during the last decade of the nineties and the beginning of the two thousand (Grosfoguel, 2016).