Borrowing the Transgendered: Re-thinking Printing Poetics, Artefacts and Performative Materials in 1970s and 1980s art from Latin America

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

The imprinted or “contact image” brings together object and image, the intimacy of touch, the distancing gaze and plasticity. Experimental printing practices witnessed a proliferation in the 1970s and 1980s, with the rise of performance and other conceptual strategies dispersing material identities. This panel discusses objects, text artefacts and mailings inscribed and appropriated by artists from Latin America. Drawing from feminist and transgender theories to interrogate the critical possibilities of crossing gender and genre boundaries in the artistic production of combinatory and inverted assemblages, the panel focuses on artworks bearing bodily traces, gender inscriptions, and (indexical) references to subversive sexuality.

Sub Track

• Art, Architecture and Visual Culture

Session Organizers

• Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra, University of Cambridge

• Erica Segre, University of Cambridge and Trinity College

Chair

• Susannah Gilbert

Individual Presentations

• Visibilizing Quotidian Violences, Articulating the Unspeakable: Mexican Art of the 1970’s and 1980’s - Karen Cordero Reiman, Universidad Iberoamericana

• Entre los pliegues: Erótica y poética en las obras-libro de Marcos Kurtycz - Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra, University of Cambridge

• Transtextuality and the Precarious Materials of Dissent: Cecilia Vicuña, Felipe Ehrenberg and the Beau Geste Press (1970-1976) - Erica Segre, University of Cambridge and Trinity College