The Expansion of the Arts III: Mediums and Materials

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

• Luz Horne, Universidad de San Andrés

Individual Presentations

• Speculative Lights, Camera, Action: Studio Practice in Latin American Photography - Roberto J Tejada, University of Houston

• Luminous Blindness: on the Misencounters of Image and Word - Gabriela Nouzeilles, Princeton University

• The Mathematical Poetics of Wlademir Dias-Pino. Prehistory of the Present - Rachel L Price, Princeton University

• Pintura en la mira: La expansión y los límites del medio pictórico actual - Florencia Malbrán, New York University Buenos Aires

Discussant

• Alejandra Uslenghi, Northwestern University