THE TPS (People's Silkscreen Workshop) (text 2004)
Born in the heat of the popular rebellion 19 and 20, the People's Silkscreen workshop was jointly founded in February 2002, allied to one of several popular assemblies that emerged from the rebellion / insurrection December 2001. From then until now is a group of artists working together and act in the context of social struggle and protest movements. Images and slogans
draw a map that filters through the agreements but also from the differences in social and political organizations thus generating processes of identification and belonging. Remove
workshop to the street, socializing the production process, allowed to build a relationship, an art participation ¨ ¨. Likewise, the "technical" and "styles" emerge from a specific situation of an encounter. In this way As the work goes through aesthetic-political situations heterogeneous and these situations are continually redefining what and how.
TPS from the start found their own dynamic, a bit casual, and silkscreen print on a shirt in the middle of the print posters for a street act, that caused a furor among present and since then the TPS is installed in the contexts of struggle to accomplish the same task, print all types of clothing, with images that seek to bear witness to the political mood of each protest. Is to provide an image that identifies control the time and place where the protest takes place in an operation that works with materials both th Dan ¨, hand stamping and the hand that gives the shirt. In this context, printed thousands of posters, t-shirts, flags, vests, sweatshirts, scarves and all kinds of things people are wearing out in love and demand. Currently
think that although it is much easier to generate a social response to specific threats and timely considering that this response is broader and powerful if they have already established the first layers of a social fabric that choose their way of life and questions power relations. Therefore, we need continuous work. The ability to create conditions characteristic of action, a time for thinking itself, an invention where the image can be the hardware of problems where we want to intervene.
THE TPS and the Popular Assembly of San Telmo, Plaza Dorrego
Popular Silkscreen Workshop began as an activity of the Popular Assembly of San Telmo, at the initiative of a group of visual artists. TPS was a way for support from his artistic activity to the movement of assemblies which were part since its inception. The first activity was an open class of screen printing in the Plaza Dorrego in San Telmo, which were printed posters calling the neighbors for a day of reflection upon the great act of repudiation of the military coup of March 24, 1976 at its 26 anniversary. The TPS continued to create images to accompany the activities of the Popular Assembly of San Telmo, Plaza Dorrego printing in a few days before May 1, 2002 the slogan "another May Day struggle." This time the factory workers recovered Brukman, TPS invited to attend the event which took place on 1 May from the factory, next to the popular assemblies and groups of employed and unemployed workers and other occupied factories as Zanon ceramics. This time is added to "other May Day struggle" the slogan "with Brukman and Zanon demand the nationalization under workers' control" by request of the workers.
The TPS and the MTD Lanús
After the brutal repression of the June 26 cut-to picket Pueyredón Bridge, which culminated in the shooting covert (and later unmasked by journalists) of the picketers Dario Santillan and Maximiliano Kosteki a group of co-MTD Darío Santillán "Anibal Veron" contacted TPS to print shirts with the image of the picket killed for use in the act / tribute that took place in Avellaneda on 26 July, a month after the crime. This time the TPS printed this picture and another with the slogan of BAT "Work, Dignity, Social Change and a third image with killed two picketers and legend Dario and Maxi Present ¨ ¨. Were printed hundreds of T-shirts, flags and scarves of different groups picketers and protesters in a spontaneous demand which is then repeated at other times becoming a prominent feature of the TPS.
In the following months there were two images of picketers killed, this time by a larger group of artists, sought by their families, along the lines of the image of Darius who had a big impact. It was a picture of Maxi Kosteki, together with a drawing you (Maxi was a student of art) and an image of "Petete" Almirón killed in the repression of December 20, 2001, together with previous were printed over and over again in different tributes in Buenos Aires, Avellaneda, Lanús, The Jagüel, Temperley, Glew. For the June 26, 2003 and 2004 were added 3 images. She was also responsible for the creation of a mural of Kosteki Avellaneda Station.
A year and two years of the popular rebellion of 19 and 20 December
19 and December 20, 2002 to one year of the popular rebellion that "threw" the government of President De La Rua, the TPS, in the Plaza de Mayo, printed posters and t-shirts again. Was printed "Argentinos to the streets", "us" and a map of Argentina consists of the names of the dead by the repression in democracy and the phrase "they live in our struggle." The following year he repeated the action with "twenty-first century began."
The TPS and the workers /
Brukman as late April 2003 the textile factory Brukman ** is violently evicted by court order. On May 1, 2002 is made a long march from the empty factory gate to the Plaza de Mayo, where the TPS print the image again made a year before adding the phrase · Culture Workers ¨ and a new image with the slogan " factories in the foot. " Workers of Brukman
perform an action called "Maquinazo" that was to make clothes on the street, to the flooded Santa Fe, as example of the sense of solidarity of the working of the factories, on this occasion the TPS participates garments printing an image in reference to the action.
Since the eviction, the workers and workers set up camp a few meters from the empty factory, demanding the recovery of their work. The TPS participated with other groups of artists (such as burns Art, Etc., Kino Our Struggle, Rosita show, and others) to organize a cultural week called: ¨ Arts & Finishing ¨, camping in the square in support workers.
From August 2003 to May 2004 he set up his space TPS working in the Rocco family home, there has been made, two works in collaboration with the workers of Brukman, handkerchiefs made for the artist and activist John Jordan, and others in a joint venture between Brukman and TPS designs TPS, Burns Arts & Etc. The purpose was to spread the conflict, contribute to the strike fund and generate resources to continue our activities independently and without patterns. This year produced the flag of the Cooperative December 18, the new name of the factory workers finally recovered.
THE TPS and the assembly of Palermo Viejo
TPS currently shared with the group Arde Art mounted a workshop building space by a popular assembly. This invitation to the TPS get to participate again of assembly space allows it to create bonds of cooperation and artistic policy, as well, have a public space in which to imagine new experiences.
The TPS and the National Movement for a Legal Day Labor 6 hours
During the strike the workers of Metrovías conquered the six-hour day, the workshop produced two posters with the slogan "Up the Down" and "Underground strike."
On May 1, 2004 again the workshop was installed in the Plaza de Mayo with various designs, including one to bring back "Factories Recovered Pie "adding the slogan" First of May, eight hours yesterday - six hours today, "referring to victory in Metrovías. The workers a month later summoned the 1st National Meeting for the reduction of working hours, to extend that application the entire working class. From there he joined the movement founded during the meeting and participates with the group again Burn! Art, layout and illustration of the steering wheel and release bulletin of this initiative.
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