Son[i]a #275
Roberto Jacoby
“Having fun takes a huge effort. You can only have fun if you resolve to do so and actively pursue your goal.” Whenever Roberto Jacoby’s work is discussed, his interdisciplinarity usually comes up. Jacoby moved from sociology to conceptual and political art by way of underground journalism, writing, activism, music, cultural management, publishing, and poetry. Although as curator and researcher Ana Longoni has said, “undisciplined” may be a better adjective than “interdisciplinary” to describe his career. An irreverent journey intent on constructing spaces for emancipation and new collective ways of inhabiting the world.
A member of the Argentinean avant-garde of the sixties, Jacoby participated in projects such as the “Anti-happening” (1966-1967) and “Tucumán Arde” (1968). He challenged the dictatorship from the trenches of underground culture, through nocturnal activism, and by writing songs for new wave group Virus. Jacoby has always understood art as a collaborative, ensemble process of creation, a view that has underpinned his orchestrating of communities such as “Proyecto Venus” (2000-2006), the magazine “ramona”, and the Argentine Brigade for Dilma at the Sao Paulo Biennial in 2010.
In this podcast, Roberto Jacoby opens up his poetry books and talks about writing, inspiration, plundering and dematerialisation; about blacks and whites, sofa-beds, politics and activism. Referring to the South, he makes a distinction between soft and hard dictatorships and talks about the neo-fascisms that are on the horizon. Also from the South, he conjures up the spaces of political imagination that opened up with the Argentinean avant-garde, the Instituto Di Tella, and the collective experience of Tucumán Arde.
Deleted scenes
We dig up some unreleased fragments of our conversation with Argentinian writer and researcher Flavia Dzodan.
Flavia Dzodan
We talk to Argentinian writer and researcher Flavia Dzodan about fashion, opulence, peripheries, phrenology, taxonomies, canons of beauty, luxury fakes, and migrant detention centres. An intense journey that touches on her personal history and includes references to other writers, notes on her methodology, and a few potshots at centres of power.
Luz Pichel
Luz Pichel is a poet. Her writing comes out of all those places and even others that she did not physically visit but reached through curiosity, imagination, and empathy. The tension between major and minor languages, the liberating potential of a non-stabilised and nob-folklorising use of dialect and the crack of invention opened up by memory and childhood, are some of the paths that her poetry explores.
María Salgado
María Salgado talks about low-tech poetry, syncretism, spoken text, writing and orality, busy channels, the powers of the prefix 'an', drugs, and the productive tension between expressions used on the streets and those stored in books.
Un Faulduo
Nicolás Zukerfeld and Nicolás Daniluk talk about experimentation and collective work, about minor authors and mass copies, about the power of translating and adapting, and about the architecture of comic strips as a space where speed and time are resolved.
Ana Longoni
Interview with Ana Longoni on the seminar "Thinking about global conceptualism".
Ana Longoni
Excerpts from Ana Longoni's intervention in the "Decentred: Other Accounts of Conceptualism (Argentina and Latin America)" course.