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Announcement RChD: Creación y Pensamiento Vol. 9, Nº 17| NOV 2024 | Open Topic. Deadline for full manuscript submission: July 31, 2024. 

Building a graphic trench: the experience of the Agrupación de Plásticos Jóvenes (APJ) and Tallersol during Chile’s dictatorship

Authors

  • Nicole Cristi Rojas Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
  • Javiera Manzi Universidad de Chile
Vol. 2 No. 3 (2017): November
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-837X.2017.47690

Abstract

The political role that posters had in Chile as a medium of promotion and agitation underwent a deep redefinition since the period of the Popular Unity, during which a graphic utopia emerges, that after the military coup is assumed as a practice of resistance. This article seeks to delve into que question of the relationship between graphic activity and politics during the 1970s and 1980s through the experience of two collectives: the Agrupación de Plásticos Jóvenes (APJ, “Young Plastic Artists Association”) and Tallersol, both based in Santiago, Chile. The mode in which they politicize the graphic practice gives way to a broadening of the political, in term of its content or slogans, opening in turn a space for the politicization of its procedures and ways of creating with others. Thus, the notion of the graphic piece understood as an instrument of propaganda is displaced toward the concept of it as a result of an interweaving of complicity and joint experimentation, an experience of production that enables the construction and expansion of a graphic trench.

Keywords:

graphic activity, military dictatorship in Chile, political practice, resistance, graphic social bond

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Rojas, N. C., & Manzi, J. (2017). Building a graphic trench: the experience of the Agrupación de Plásticos Jóvenes (APJ) and Tallersol during Chile’s dictatorship. RChD: Creación Y Pensamiento, 2(3). https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-837X.2017.47690
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