Payment of the Argentine Foreign Debt to Andy Warhol with Corn, The Latin American Gold

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Introduction remarks: 00:00
Performance: 04:50
Marta Minujín speaks: 19:20
Americas Society and the Jewish Museum hosted a special performance with the legendary Argentinian artist Marta Minujín, in conjunction with the exhibition Marta Minujín: Arte! Arte! Arte! at the Jewish Museum.
About the Work
In the original staging, created on a visit by the artist to New York in 1985, Marta Minujin invited her friend Andy Warhol to participate in a photo-performance in which she paid the pop icon, a symbol of American culture, with the Argentine foreign debt represented in gold-sprayed corn, claiming that the region had already covered its debt to the first world with the “invention” of corn, a staple that today feeds millions worldwide. The witty but nonetheless quite serious proposal directly addresses the commercial colonialism that the Global South is subjected to by world powers such as the United States. By pairing herself on an equal footing with Warhol, the most famous artist at the time, Minujín also commented on the unequal trade of cultural capital in the art world. “Corn, the Latin American Gold” should balance these inequalities and put the world’s regions on the same level, she claims.
Marta Minujín’s Payment of the Argentine Foreign Debt to Andy Warhol with Corn, The Latin American Gold is exhibited in Marta Minujín: Arte! Arte! Arte! at The Jewish Museum and was featured in El Dorado: Myths of Gold Part I at Americas Society.
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Im glad this is helping inflation and the gap between rich and poor....Bravo...solutions, a sinking ship

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te amo Mata nuestra

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I think it's corny. But what do I know about agriculture?

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The avant-garde is the refuge of the talentless.

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Bit odd is you ask me,,,,

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I feel constipation is happening

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Like Any Warhol....utterly boring !!!!

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