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2009 Conference Publication

Transnational Latin American Art from 1950 to Present Day

The 2009 Forum was a meeting of scholars of modern and contemporary Latin American art from around the world, providing an opportunity for scholars and researchers from this diverse and growing field to come together and thus creating opportunities for transnational, multidisciplinary, and collaborative interactions, exchanges, and dialogues This publication is an extension of the forum and a component in what we hope will serve as a record of the first of many future encounters and interactions. The presenters at the 2009 Forum, were selected by an academic committee composed of Michael Asbury, María Iñigo Clavo, Valerie Fraser, Andrea Giunta, Roberto Tejada, and Isobel Whitelegg.

• Conference Program
• Selected Abstracts
• Introduction to the 2009 Forum by Dr. Andrea Giunta (English)
• Introduction to the 2009 Forum by Dr. Andrea Giunta (Español)
• Keynote Address by Dr. Jacqueline Barnitz

Panel 1
The Invention of Latin America: Ideological Maps

Chair: Andrea Giunta (The University of Texas at Austin)
Discussant: Renato González Mello (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

• Joaquín Barriendos (New York University) The Reinvention of Latin America as a Geo-Aesthetic Region. Area Studies, Geopolitics, and Museographic Imaginaries
  • Barriendos' Bio
  • Barriendos' Abstract
  • Barriendos' Paper
• Mariana Marchesi (Universidad de Buenos Aires) Las redes culturales latinoamericanas y los debates del arte revolucionario (1970–1973)
  • Marchesi's Bio
  • Marchesi's Abstract
  • Marchesi's Paper
• Michael G Wellen (The University of Texas at Austin) The Threats of an Archive: The José Gómez Sicre Papers and the Risks of Writing a Latin American Art History
  • Wellen's Bio
  • Wellen's Abstract
  • Wellen's Paper
• Fabiana Serviddio (Universidad de Buenos Aires) The Symposium of Latin American Art and Literature held at Austin, Texas, in 1975
  • Serviddio's Bio
  • Serviddio's Abstract
  • Serviddio's Paper

Panel 2
Conflictive Borders/Conflictive Nations

Chair: Roberto Tejada (The University of Texas at Austin)
Discussant: Edward Sullivan (New York University)

• Ruth Estévez (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México/Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil) Strategies and Repercussions of the InSite Cross-Border Cooperation Event in the Current Artistic Production at the Border
  • Estévez's Bio
  • Estévez's Abstract
  • Estévez's Paper
• Dafne Cruz Porchini (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México/Museo Nacional de Arte) Los caminos de una colección nacional tardía (1950–1982)
  • Porchini's Bio
  • Porchini's Abstract
  • Porchini's Paper
• Natalia De La Rosa (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) Beyond Nationalism. Diego Rivera and the Artistic Creation ‘For Peace’
  • De La Rosa's Bio
  • De La Rosa's Abstract
  • De La Rosa's Paper

Panel 3
Transnational Interactions I

Chair: Valerie Fraser (University of Essex)
Discussant: Robin Greeley (University of Connecticut)

• Katherine Brodbeck (New York University) “A Third Way”: Information (1970) and the International Exhibition of Contemporary Art from Latin America
  • Brodbeck's Bio
  • Brodbeck's Abstract
  • Brodbeck's Paper
• Isabel Plante (Universidad de Buenos Aires) Imágenes Cruzadas. Intelectuales y arte entre París y Buenos Aires durante los años '60
  • Plante's Bio
  • Plante's Abstract
  • Plante's Paper
• Cecilia Braschi (Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti) Paris-Buenos Aires, and Return: an International Path for Abstract and Kinetic Art
  • Braschi's Bio
  • Braschi's Abstract
  • Braschi's Paper

Panel 4
Conflictive Abstractions

Chair: Dawn Ades (University of Essex)
Discussant: Janice Leoshko (The University of Texas at Austin)

• Mariola Alvarez (University of California, San Diego) The Remaking of Art: Neoconcretismo and the Argentine Connection
  • Alvarez's Bio
  • Alvarez's Abstract
  • Alvarez's Paper
• Cristina Rossi (Universidad de Buenos Aires) Pasos Cordilleranos. The Argentinean – Chilean Exchanges around Abstract Art
  • Rossi's Bio
  • Rossi's Abstract
  • Rossi's Paper
• Susanne Neubauer (Universität Zürich) 1959–1968: Lygia Clark and the Brazilian Avant-garde in Germany and Switzerland
  • Neubauer's Bio
  • Neubauer's Abstract
  • Neubauer's Paper
• Ana Maria Franco (New York University) The Magic of a Traffic Light: Edgar Negret's Magic Machines
  • Franco's Bio
  • Franco's Abstract
  • Franco's Paper
• Abigail Winograd (The University of Texas at Austin) The Trauma of Dislocation and the Development of Alternative Abstractions in Latin America: Renegotiations of Space, Experience, and Self in the Work of Gego and Mira Schendel
  • Winograd's Bio
  • Winograd's Abstract
  • Winograd's Paper
• Tatiane De Oliveira Elias (Staatliche Akademieder Bildenden Künste Stuttgart) Concretismo no Brasil
  • Elias' Bio
  • Elias' Abstract
  • Elias' Paper

Panel 5
Transnational Interactions II

Chair: Isobel Whitelegg (University of the Arts London)/Michael Asbury (University of the Arts London)
Discussant: José Falconi (Harvard University)

• Ana Cândida de Avelar (Universidade de São Paulo) A Controversial Juryman: Alfred Barr Jr. at the 4th São Paulo Biennial of 1957
  • Avelar's Bio
  • Avelar's Abstract
  • Avelar's Paper
• Viviana Usubiaga (Universidad de Buenos Aires) Between Regionalism and Internationalism: Definitions of Latin American Art at the 1985 São Paulo International Biennale
  • Usubiaga's Bio
  • Usubiaga's Abstract
  • Usubiaga's Paper
• Patricia Luiz-Healy (The University of Texas at Austin) La Ruta de la Amistad: International Monumental Sculpture Collaborative Project for the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City
  • Luiz-Healy's Bio
  • Luiz-Healy's Abstract
  • Luiz-Healy's Paper

Panel 6
Contacts and Collaborations: Mail Art and Print Culture

Chair: Valerie Fraser (University of Essex)/Roberto Tejada (The University of Texas at Austin)
Discussant: Beverly Adams (Diane and Bruce Halle Collection of Latin American Art)

• Vanessa Davidson (New York University) From Margin to Margin and Back Again: Paulo Bruscky, Leonhard Frank Duch, and Edgardo Antonio Vigo's Mail Art Practice
  • Davidson's Bio
  • Davidson's Abstract
  • Davidson's Paper
• Susannah Gilbert (University of Essex) Between Intimacy and Instrumentality: the Genesis of Mail Art Exhibitions in Latin America
  • Gilbert's Bio
  • Gilbert's Abstract
  • Gilbert's Paper
• Talía Bermejo (Universidad de Buenos Aires) Cabalgata de Posguerra. The Cultural Magazine as a Promotion and Cultural Link Agent
  • Bermejo's Bio
  • Bermejo's Abstract
  • Bermejo's Paper
• Doris Maria-Reina Bravo (The University of Texas at Austin) Mediating the Government and the Art World: Plástica magazine and their Didactic Project
  • Bravo's Bio
  • Bravo's Abstract
  • Bravo's Paper

Panel 7
One Artist, One Work: A Place Among Others

Chair: Andrea Giunta (The University of Texas at Austin)/ Isobel Whitelegg (University of the Arts London)
Discussant: Thomas Cummins (Harvard University)

• Sérgio Martins (University College London) A Not-So-Foreign View: Antonio Dias in Milan
  • Martins' Bio
  • Martins' Abstract
  • Martins' Paper
• Tiago Machado (Universidade de São Paulo) As neovanguardas no Brasil: Daniel Buren nas Bienais de São Paulo em 1983 e 1985
  • Machado's Bio
  • Machado's Abstract
  • Machado's Paper

Panel 8
Uses of the International

Chair: María Iñigo Clavo (University of Essex)
Discussant: Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro (Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros)

• Olga Fernández (Royal College of Art London) Conceptualism, a Historic Necessity for Latin American Art?
  • Fernández's Bio
  • Fernández's Abstract
  • Fernández's Paper
• Gabriela Piñero (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) Estrategias de inserción y politícas de visibilidad: el paradigma conceptual
  • Piñero's Bio
  • Piñero's Abstract
  • Piñero's Paper
• Gina McDaniel Tarver (Texas State University) Bernado Salcedo's Internationalist Double-Speak
  • McDaniel Tarver's Bio
  • McDaniel Tarver's Abstract
  • McDaniel Tarver's Paper
• Paulina Varas Alarcón (Universitat de Barcelona) NETWORK-S, SITUATION-S and PLACE-S in Chilean Art
  • Alarcón's Bio
  • Alarcón's Abstract
  • Alarcón's Paper

Panel 9
Sites of Resistance

Chair: Michael Asbury (University of the Arts London)
Discussant: Úrsula Dávila-Villa (The University of Texas at Austin)

• Erin Aldana (The University of Texas at Austin) Transnational Interpretations of the Local: the Problem of Abertura-Period Art in Brazil
  • Aldana's Bio
  • Aldana's Abstract
  • Aldana's Paper
• André Luiz Mesquita (Universidade de São Paulo) Aimaginação coletiva do espaço social
  • Mesquita's Bio
  • Mesquita's Abstract
  • Mesquita's Paper
• Ines Linke (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais) The Impropriety of Public Art
  • Linke's Bio
  • Linke's Abstract
  • Linke's Paper
• Guillherme Wisnik (Universidade de São Paulo) Brutalism and Tropicalism
  • Wisnik's Bio
  • Wisnik's Abstract
  • Wisnik's Paper
• Sara Angel Guerrero-Rippberger (University of the Arts London, Camberwell College of Arts) Post-9/11 Public Terror in Latin American Art
  • Guerrero-Rippberger's Bio
  • Guerrero-Rippberger's Abstract
  • Guerrero-Rippberger's Paper

The presenters at the 2009 Forum, were selected by an academic committee composed of Michael Asbury, María Iñigo Clavo, Valerie Fraser, Andrea Giunta, Roberto Tejada, and Isobel Whitelegg.

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The Permanent Seminar on Latin American Art (under the auspices of CLAVIS–Center for Latin American Visual Studies) is an initiative, organized by Professors Andrea Giunta and Roberto Tejada upon their arrival to UT in September 2008, with the support of the Department of Art and Art History and the College of Fine Arts. Focusing on Latin American and U.S. Latino art, the permanent seminar is an open-ended research space dedicated to the creative production of knowledge; participants include graduate students, artists, art historians and critics from UT and from Latin America.

Director

Dr. Andrea Giunta
Professor, Latin American and Latino Art
Department of Art and Art History
University of Texas at Austin
agiunta@mail.utexas.edu

Coordinator

André França
Department of Art and Art History
University of Texas at Austin
andre@mail.utexas.edu

Mailing Address:

CLAVIS – Center for Latin American Visual Studies
Department of Art and Art History
University of Texas at Austin
ART 3.434A 1 University Station D1300
Austin, Texas 78712

(512) 471-0905
clavis@austin.utexas.edu