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ABSTRACT:
This article addresses the role played by destruction and catastrophe within contemporary art, especially in practices that intersect art and technologies to display processes of devastation, accumulation of vestiges and investigations with ephemeral materials. After studying some artworks that have explored auto-destructive act as an artistic gesture throughout the last decades, the article analyses certain Latin-American projects that embody tactics of constructive destruction. The ruins produced by these works do not refer to the past. Instead, the act of devastation in the region could be interpreted as an aesthetic and political strategy of critical resistance towards the status quo.
Keywords: contemporary art; catastrohpe; destruction; Latin-America; technology.
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