Duganne, Erina & Satinsky, Abigail (Editors) - Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities

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Erina Duganne & Abigail Satinsky (Editors).
Art for the Future: Artists Call
and Central American Solidarities.
>br?Inventory Press, 2022. 
Softcover.
288 pages. 
English & Spanish. 

New. 

Essay contributors include exhibition curators
Erina Duganne & Abigail Satinsky as well as
Kency Cornejo, Lucy Lippard, Yansi Pérez, 
and Josh Rios. Interviews with Artists Call
participants Doug Ashford, Fatima Bercht, 
Josely Carvalho, Daniel Flores y Ascencio, 
Kimiko Hahn, Jerry Kearns, Sabra Moore, 
and Juan Sancheza, alongside historical 
texts by Jerri Allyn, Maria Thereza Alves, 
and Hans Haacke, are also featured. 

A collective history of the 1980s anti-imperialist campaign

In the early 1980s, a group of artists, writers and activists came together in New York City to form Artists Call Against US Intervention in Central America, a creative campaign that mobilized nationwide in an effort to bring attention to the US government’s violent involvement in Latin American nations such as Nicaragua and El Salvador. Together the group staged over 200 exhibitions, concerts and other public events in a single year, raising awareness and funds for those disenfranchised by such political crises.

Art for the Future
illuminates the history of Artists Call with archival pieces and newly commissioned work in the spirit of the group’s message. In Spanish and English, a wide selection of artists and organizers examine the group’s history as well as the issues that were as urgent to Artists Call in 1984 as they are now: decolonization, Indigeneity, collectivity, human rights and self-determination.

Artists include
: Antena Aire, Benvenuto Chavajay, Leon Golub, Hans Haacke, Fredman Barahona & Christian Dietkus Lord, Sandra Monterroso, Carlos Motta, Claes Oldenburg, Gregory Sholette and Coosje van Bruggen, Maria Thereza Alves, Sabra Moore, Jerri Allyn, Dona Ann McAdams, Rudolf Baranik, Susan Meiselas, Alfredo Jaar, Martha Rosler, Jesús Romeo Galdámez and Jimmie Durham.