The class struggle according to childhood 

‘Activissimme’ (2011-2013) is an installation that documents the workshop for children aged four to nine that Argote ran in summer 2011 and 2012 at the MAC/VAL Museum in Val-de-Marne, a suburb of Paris. Inspired by his parents’ activism and educational activities in Columbia in the seventies, Argote came up with a workshop in which the children organised protests, formulating critical aspects linked to their own lives and producing tools for demonstrating in public spaces. Iván Argote provides children with the tools to learn how to express their own opinions. A set of slides show the posters, megaphones, and banners, as well as a transcription of a phone conversation in which the artist explains the project to his mother, in a characteristic gesture: an intimate circle in a universal reflection. The artist continues explaining the installation to you on MACBA Web Radio. 

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Caricia

2012

Iván Argote

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¿Quien no jugó a los antepasados alguna vez, a las prehistorias de su carne y su sangre?

2013

Iván Argote

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Histoire de l’Humanité

2011

Iván Argote

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