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PRESENTATION
"ARCHIVE OF DISOBEDIENCE (the street)"

May 10th 2025 - Agosto 2025
Organized by: Fundación Proa
Curated by: Marco Scotini
Sponsored by: Tenaris – Ternium 
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From May 10 to July 2025, PROA21 presents Disobedience Archive (the street), curated by Marco Scotini. The exhibition reunites 36 video works by international artists and collectives, organized in a three-part cycle of 12 videos each, which are periodically renewed. Each phase offers a simultaneous journey through the four thematic axes that structure the project: gender disobedience, insurgent communities, radical ecologies, and diaspora activism.

Conceived in 2005 by Scotini, Disobedience Archive functions as a mobile and expanded platform that explores the intersection of art and political action through audiovisual practices. In its various exhibition formats, the project emerges as a contested space, where multiple voices coexist and interact actively with the local context. As an archive, it invites a rethinking of how collective memory is organized, challenging the notion of the archive as an unquestionable record. Disobedience is thus proposed as a methodology for complicating both the understanding and preservation of the past and the construction of the present.

Since its inception, the project has been presented over 15 times in different countries and, in 2024, is part of the Contemporary Nucleus of the 60th Venice Biennale. In each edition, the archive is reconfigured, adopting diverse forms—such as a parliament, a school, or a community garden—in an effort to move away from any static or closed conception of what an archive is.

The Buenos Aires edition engages the public space of the street and features a compelling selection of works produced between 1999 and 2023, accompanied by a public program designed to enrich and amplify the exhibited content, fostering an active dialogue with the current local context. The exhibition is thus conceived as a space for memory and analysis, as well as for encounter and knowledge.

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Primer ciclo | MAYO - JUNIO

DESOBEDIENCIA DE GÉNERO
Seba Calfuqueo, Nunca serás un Weye. You will never be a Weye, 2015 (4’46’’) 
Marcelo Expósito con Nuria Vila, Tactical Frivolity + Rhythms of Resistance (Frivolidad táctica + Ritmos de resistencia), 2007 (39’) 
Carlos Motta, Corpo Fechado – The Devil’s Work (Cuerpo cerrado - La obra del Diablo), 2018 (24’33’’) 

ECOLOGÍAS RADICALES
Oliver Ressler, The Path is Never the Same (El camino nunca es el mismo), 2022 (27’) 
Critical Art Ensemble, Radiation Burn: A Temporary Monument to Public Safety (Quemadura por radiación: un monumento temporal a la seguridad pública), 2010 (12’30’’) 
Ravi Agarwal, The Flower Pluckers (Los recolectores de flores), 2007 (3’33’’) 

COMUNIDADES INSURGENTES 
Paloma Polo, El barro de la revolución, 2019 (120’8’’) 
GAC / Grupo de Arte Callejero, Aquí Viven Genocidas, 2001 (10’); Invasión, 2001 (3’); Poema visual para escaleras. Estación Lanús, 2002 (3’); Ministerio del Control. Plan Nacional de Desalojo, 2003 (2’); Shopping para artistas, 2003 (1’); Desalojarte en progresión, 2003 (1’)
Etcétera / Movimiento Internacional Errorista, FAKE NEWS – El club del helicóptero, 2017 (7’06’’)

ACTIVISMO DE LA DIÁSPORA
Ursula Biemann, Sahara Chronicle (Crónica del Sahara), 2006–2009 (33’14’’)
Sim Chi Yin, Requiem (Internationale, Goodbye Malaya) [Réquiem (Internacional, Adiós Malaya)], 2017 (6’08’’) 
Daniela Ortiz, No es un hueco en mi tierra la raíz que arrancaste; es un túnel!, 2024 (24’18’’)  

Segundo ciclo | JUNIO - JULIO

DESOBEDIENCIA DE GÉNERO
Maria Galindo y Mujeres Creando, Revolución puta, 2023 (51’40’’) 
Ege Berensel, March of Women (Marcha de mujeres), 2018 (27’) 
Güliz Saglam, 8 Mart 2018 – Istanbul / 8th of March (8 Mart 2018 – Estambul / 8 de Marzo), 2018 (6’)

ECOLOGÍAS RADICALES
Sanjay Kak, Words on Water (Palabras sobre el agua), 2002 (85’)
Atelier d’Architecture Autogérée (AAA), Au Rez-de-chaussée de la ville (En los bajos de la ciudad), 2005 (34’)
Urbonas Studio, Juliet Kepes Stone and BUG (Boston Urban Gardens) [Juliet Kepes Stone y BUG (Boston Urban Gardens)], 2011 (42’)

COMUNIDADES INSURGENTES
Libia Castro y Ólafur Ólafsson, Aðfaraorð / Preamble (Aðfaraorð / Preámbulo), 2020 (5’06’’)
Roy Samaha, Transparent Evil (Mal transparente), 2011 (27’) 
Mohanad Yaqubi, R21 aka Restoring Solidarity (R21 alias Restaurando la Solidaridad), 2022 (71’’) 
 

ACTIVISMO DE LA DIÁSPORA
Bani Khoshnoudi, El Chinero, un cerro fantasma, 2023 (11’)
Pınar Öğrenci, Inventory 2021 (Inventario 2021), 2021 (16’)
Atelier Impopulaire, Before We Love, Act 2: 12 Gates (Antes de amar, Acto 2: 12 Puertas), 2024 (30’) 

Tercer ciclo | JULIO - AGOSTO

DESOBEDIENCIA DE GÉNERO
Simone Cangelosi, Una nobile rivoluzione: Ritratto di Marcella Di Folco (Una noble revolución: retrato de Marcella Di Folco), 2014 (83’07’’) 
Sara Jordenö, Kiki, 2016 (93’48’’)
Pedro Lemebel, Desnudo bajando la escalera, 2014 (2’10’’); Pisagua, 2006 (3’29’’) 

ECOLOGÍAS RADICALES
Mao Chenyu, I Have What? Chinese Peasants War: The Rhetoric to Justice (¿Tengo qué? Guerra de los campesinos chinos: la retórica a la justicia), 2013 (103’)
Karrabing Film Collective, The Family & The Zombie (La familia y el zombie), 2021 (29’23’’) 
Navjot Altaf, Soul Breath Wind (Alma aliento viento), 2014-2018 (62’) 

COMUNIDADES INSURGENTES 
Ali Essafi, Wanted (Al-Hareb) [Se busca (Al-Hareb)], 2011 (20’) 
Khaled Jarrar, The Infiltrators (Los Infiltrados), 2012 (70’)
Chto Delat, Partisan Songspiel. A Belgrade Story (Canción partisana. Una historia de Belgrado), 2009 (29’15’’)

ACTIVISMO DE LA DIÁSPORA
Angela Melitopoulos, Passing Drama (De paso por Drama), 1999 (66’14’’) 
LIMINAL & Border Forensics, Asymmetric Visions (Visiones asimétricas), 2023 (10’54’’) 
Tita Salina & Irwan Ahmett, B.A.T.A.M (Bila Anda Tiba Akan Menyesal) - When You Arrive You’ll Regret [B.A.T.A.M (Bila Anda Tiba Akan Menyesal) - Al llegar te arrepentirás], 2020 (43’01’’)

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