Marta Minujín: MINUCODEs
March 2 – April 30, 2010
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Marta Minujín is a prominent voice of the Argentine neo-avant-garde art scene of the 1960s and 70s, with a brilliant international career that helped define the discussion about media, performance, and participation. Minujín is often mentioned as one of the pioneers of happenings.

Marta Minujín’s Minucode (1968), originally commissioned by the Center for Inter-American Relations (now Americas Society), explored social codes in four groups of leading figures in the arts, business, fashion, and politics in New York through a series of cocktail parties/happenings. Deeply interested in Marshall McLuhan’s theories about the mass media, Minujín created an electronic environment with footage and light and sound shows produced during the happenings.

MINUCODEs, organized by Gabriela Rangel and José Luis Blondet, revisits that project more than 40 years later. Through recently recovered footage and documents, the exhibition will shed light on the original mythical event, and will offer a detailed chronology on Minujín’s other multimedia environments dealing with mass media.

Related programming:

• March 2, 2010: Gallery Tour and Opening Reception: Marta Minujín: MINUCODEs
• March 30, 2010: Judi Rodenbeck and José Luis Blondet: Lecture on MINUCODEs
• April 13, 2010: Alexander Alberro, Carolee Schneemann and Jenni Sorkin: Panel discussion on MINUCODEs

Americas Society and Pinta Art co-present Marta Minujin: Minucodes. We gratefully acknowledge Erica Roberts and Fundación Exportar for their generous support, which helps make this exhibition possible.


In-kind support is graciously provided by Dirección General de Asuntos Culturales del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriories, Comercio Internacional y Culto, República Argentina, the Consulate General of Argentina in New York, and Fundación Espigas.



The Visual Arts Program is also supported in part with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.