Sabotage Art: Politics and Iconoclasm in Contemporary Latin America

Sabotage is the deliberate disruption of a dominant system, be it political, military or economic. Yet in recent decades, sabotage has also become an artistic strategy most notably in Latin America. In Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Chile and Argentina, artists are producing radical, unruly or even iconoclastic work that resists state violence, social conformity and the commodification of art.

Sabotage Art reveals how contemporary Latin American artists have resorted to sabotage strategies as a m...