ACTIVISM ARCHIVE.
Activism as resistance to state violence may be the most dangerous and visible form of resistance. Under dictatorships, public activists were among the first to be targeted for disappearance. However there is power in numbers. The persistence and audacity of these groups to continue to fight, has opened space for generations after them to continue resistance against injustice. Activism can come in many forms, all the art forms included can be deemed activism. This section covers traditional organizing and congregating in public space- for the purpose of advocating for change.
ARGENTINA.
Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo are a group of activists, of mothers whose sons and daughters were disappeared under the hand of the Argentinian military state. Founded in 1977, Madres de La Plaza de Mayo, take over public space with images of their disappeared loved ones, and with posters of outlined bodies— that delineate present space for the disappeared. Madres de la Plaza continue actions today, they have taken an international platform in denouncing state violence and forced disappearance, continuing to search for answers to lost loved ones.
