| Summary: | On the night of Tuesday, October 4, 1988, the Festival Body Art, a contest organized by Roberto Jacoby together with a large group of collaborators in Paladium, emblematic nightclub of the city of Buenos Aires. The slogan: each participant should be produced as a work of art and thus obtain their "15 seconds of fame". The winners, chosen by a jury and by the applause of the public, would take 200 dollars of prize. With the disco nightclub transformed into a "dance museum", the "Body Art" offered an experience in which the social and the artistic merged to account for the horizon of possibilities offered by an era, inscribing themselves in the bodies with a vitality that knew how to capture the tone of a sensibility to come. In the abyss of the eighties, Body Art was the prelude to an irreverent exercise of difference that broke not only into artistic practices, but also into ways of thinking about the emancipation of bodies and the politics of institutions. This book was conceived in line with these modes of collective doing. Activity of use invited us to make a publication that transmits the sensations of that night, as well as its contemporaneity. Essays, historical texts, photographs, documents and a compilation of testimonies of those who were there make up this book. His images allow us to spy on that hectic experience whose resonances insist, until today, on devising other futures.
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