Ever since it was founded, the CAYC (Centro de Arte y Comunicación), helmed by the cultural promoter, artist, and businessman Jorge Glusberg, was intended as an interdisciplinary space where an experimental art movement could flourish. The establishment of collaborative networks connecting local and international artists and critics played a key role in this process. The exhibitions shone a light on these exchanges, in which overviews of trends or individual artists introduced the innovations of international contemporary art and made Argentine and Latin American artists better known on the global scene.
In 1970 the artists Peter Kennedy, Mike Parr (both born in 1945), Tim Johnson, and others cofounded Inhibodress, one of the first experimental groups run by artists in Sydney, Australia. Though Inhibodress was short-lived (it only lasted until 1972), it was a key step in the evolution of Australian Conceptual art. It was started to provide support for experimental works and introduce a neophyte audience to the first multimedia shows involving movement and performance, light and sound, film and video art. Among many other important works, Kennedy’s But the Fierce Blackman was shown in March 1971. A performative installation described as one of the first works of sound art produced in the antipodes, it was presented at the CAYC as its first exhibition of 1973.
