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 an important role in this process. The exhibitions shone a light on these exchanges, in which overviews of trends or individual artists provided an introduction to the innovations of international contemporary art and made Argentine and Latin American artists better known on the global scene.
In 1974 the CAYC began focusing a great deal of its attention on this project, promoting a variety of initiatives in exhibitions that traveled around a contemporary circuit of new cultural spaces and centers that were emerging in Europe at the time. The exhibition Arte de Sistemas en Latinoamérica traveled to several European cities from 1974 to 1976, presenting an overview of the region’s recent works adapted to the concept of systems art.
A program of activities, named “Semana Latinoamericana,” was organized around the exhibition. This newsletter published the daily program of the first edition of this initiative at the Internationaal Cultureel Centrum in Antwerp. There were meetings for debating the sociopolitical outlook for Latin American art, and there was dance, music, theater, and experimental film, all of which promoted the CAYC’s experimental approach, particularly regarding art from Argentina and from the region as a whole. There were informative videos about the Grupo de los Trece (produced by the CAYC) and electro-acoustic music concerts by the CICMAT (Centro de Investigación en Comunicación masiva, arte y tecnología), the mass communication, art, and technology research center started by former members of the CLAEM, which was affiliated with the Instituto Di Tella, the heart and soul of cultural and artistic activities in Buenos Aires during the 1960s.
In this important Belgian port city, the CAYC presented different artistic and cultural activities, which were reported on in several newsletters [see GT-380 (doc. no. 1476529); GT-354 (doc. no. 1476507) / GT-356 (doc. no. 1476508); GT-414 (doc. no. 1476542)].
