The Expansion of the Arts II: Politics

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

Over the last decade critics of contemporary Latin American Art have emerged in disciplines others to Art History, mainly Literature. This expansion of disciplinary boundaries has happened in relation to three main questions: conceptualism; neoliberal and postmodern politics; medium specificity. These panels bring together scholars from Art History and Literature, to make manifest the contamination of disciplines and fields, to explore how art historians and literary critics might speak differently about a same object, and to allow for collaborations. The panels place these questions in relationship to the notion of the contemporary, arguing the contemporary as expansion, contamination and collaboration.

Sub Track

• Art and Architecture

Session Organizer

• Natalia Brizuela, University of California/Berkeley

Chair

• Natalia Brizuela, University of California/Berkeley

Individual Presentations

• The Market and Consumption as Powers in the Realm of Consciousness - Sergio Delgado, Harvard University

• Social Allegories of Reading: Francis Alÿs in the Age of Cuauhtémoc - Amy Sara Carroll, University of Michigan

• ‘This is Not America’: Negation in Contemporary Art and Theory - Esther L Gabara, Duke University

• La memoria de lo inacabado: arqueología y temporalidad en Lina Bo Bardi y Flávio de Carvalho - Luz Horne, Universidad de San Andrés

Discussant

• Lisa M Blackmore, Universität Zürich