During 1968 a group of avant-garde artists, moved by their own direct working experience, started openly to discuss the decrepitude and uselessness of prevailing Argentine culture and of their own art, which until then they—and their society—had perceived as a revolutionizing force.

The oligarchic-imperialist dictatorship in our country has increased its oppressive measures. Censorship has become obvious and crude, enforced by “cultural” institutions (museums, prize committees, etc.) as well as by the police.

We have shattered our own illusions that we were able to create, inside the bourgeois cultural apparatus, work that truly opposed the prevailing social structure. Our development now demands a complete restatement of the purpose and conduct of the artist and the intellectual, a search for new institutional frameworks, for new audiences, for new media and messages.