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La Organización Negra [The Black Organisation] (Buenos Aires, 1984 - 1993), led by Manuel Hermelo and Pichón Baldinu, was born at the National School of Dramatic Art in 1984. The group began to stage public actions: ‘guerrilla exercises’ to disconcert passers-by, turning them into involuntary spectators with their radical shock poetics: performers chained at traffic lights, vomiting yoghurt or collapsing on cars after an artificial loud noise. These were, in Hermelo’s words, ‘small interventions seeking to disrupt the world for a few seconds.’ Based on physical display, their unsettling actions were also held in indoors. Shows like La Negra Diciembre [The Black December] (1985) or UORC (1986) threw up unforgettable images of rave-ups, of men writhing in black bin-bags, of sparks, dust and paint falling from the ceiling, and made a physical impact on onlookers. La Organización Negra opened a chapter of its own in the post-dictatorship cultural scene, after 1983. As the researcher Malala González recounts in her book, it was the ‘party-poopers’ of the return to democracy who countered the celebratory mood with lingering traces of violence still carved into bodies (foetuses, execution victims, spectres), the marks of a society whose wounds had yet to heal. La Organización Negra [The Black Organisation] Directors: Manuel Hermelo and Pichón Baldinu Performers: Jorge Acuña Daniel Algarbes Pichón Baldinu Pablo Barral Eduardo Champañer Fernando Dopazo Carlos Feijoo Manuel Hermelo Diqui James Charlie Nijensohn Gus Nino Ariel Pumares Alfredo Visciglio