Tuesday 8 July 2014 – 10 to 19 hrs. Fundación Proa Auditorium
Free activity. Space is limited. Certificate of attendance will be given to those who can prove participation in the whole day.

Open until July 4 Registration.
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m.a.m mujeres artistas en movimiento, Despenalización del Aborto, 2003 Documentación fotográfica de intervención urbana realizada en la Plaza 1º de Mayo, Montevideo, Uruguay. © m.a.m artistas en movimiento

Beginning Saturday, July 5 at 17 pm, Fundación Proa presents Urgent Action, a South American panorama of artistic interventions in urban space from the 90s to the present. The exhibition brings together the work of groups and artist collectives from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay taking the city as a stage and support of him production.

As part of the exhibition, on Tuesday July 8th Urgent Action Meeting, a day that proposes a mapping of the various forms and intervention strategies that take the city as a stage from clusters and groups of artists that presents the display. The day in Proa offers the opportunity to learn the history of each of the participating groups, as well as a tour of their actions and the ability to talk directly with the players.

The exhibition includes records of urban interventions carried out by artists from multiple disciplines challenged by political, social and economic reality launched art to make visible issues like women’s rights actions, political corruption, impunity, racism the ecology and indigenismo, among other topics.

Curated by specialists and researchers Rodrigo Alonso y Cecilia Rabossi, the exhibition has the support of Ternium and Tenaris and Techint Group divisions and continued the series of exhibitions planned by Proa deepen the reflection on its relationship to contemporary art with the city, like City Editings (1999) Urban Spaces (2009) and Buenos Aires (2013).

Participating in Urgent Action Meeting

Arte correo: Clemente Padín
Colectivo Sociedad Civil: Gustavo Buntinx
Cuadernos de Movilización: Nadinne Canto Novoa – Diego Parra Donoso – Juan Pablo Torrealba
Escombros: Luis Pazos
Etcétera: Federico Zukerfeld – Loreto Garín
Frente 3 de Fevereiro: Daniel Lima – Felipe Brait
Iconoclasistas: Julia Risler – Pablo Ares
Javier López – Erika Meza
Mujeres Artistas en Movimiento: Ana Aristimuño – Andrea Sica – Victoria Martínez
Mujeres Creando: Danitza Luna – Carolina Ottonello
Mujeres Públicas: Magdalena Pagano – Fernanda Carrizo – Lorena Bossi
Opavivará: Daniel Bastos
Viva Laura Pérez: Javier Soria Vazquez