Plural Temporalities: Theories and Practices of Time — Transregional Academy on Latin American Art IV, 2022 in Bogotà
The German Center for Art History (DFK Paris, part of the Max Weber Foundation – German Humanities Institutes Abroad), the...
Kategorie: Plural Temporalities
Sofía Vindas Solano – Cosmopolitan outsiders: Artistic practices and cultural activity of Central American artists at the international circuits of modern art, 1950s-1970s
This project analyzes how between the 1950s and 1970s, certain Central American artists engaged in a large network of local and international cultural spaces (public and private) that were devoted to the promotion of Latin American modern art. These artists were engaged in a complex circuit of art exhibits, art competitions such as biennales and lectures amongst others to occupy space in the larger debate of what Latin American Art was supposed to be.
Marivi Véliz – Tracing, Pacing, Rerouting the Borders of the Americas
In different moments throughout Art History, some artists made use of walking with aesthetic purposes. However, the 21st century seems to be the moment when walking as performance congeals, adding value to performance as a transdisciplinary coupling of art and citizenship.
Aleksandra Tobiasz – Between Chronos and Kairos: Witold Gombrowicz’s Diarisitic Struggles with Time
Following Witold Gombrowicz’s existential map, extending from Central Europe via Latin America to Western Europe, I will try to trace the contours of his self-identification, volatile because shaped by different places and orders of time (cultural, historical and diaristic)
Lucy Quezada — The Official Field: Visual Arts and Cultural Policy During the Military Dictatorships of Argentina, Brazil, and Chile
Lucy’s dissertation project titled “The Official Field: Visual Arts and Cultural Policy During the Military Dictatorships of Argentina, Brazil, and Chile” undertakes a comparative study of the construction of an official discourse about the visual arts in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile during the military dictatorships between the 1960s and 1980s.
Diogo Rodrigues de Barros – The Awareness of Underdevelopment: Latin Americanism and Art Historiography in the 1960s and 1970s
At the end of the 1960s, the Brazilian literary critic Antonio Candido published “Literature and underdevelopment”, an article which quickly became a classic of Latin American cultural studies.
Killian Rauline – Time Discrepancies and Returns to Painting in Brazilian Art
Between the late 1960s and 1980s, doubts about progress and the means of modernization had grown in Brazil. The consolidation of the dictatorship after 1968, the failure of revolutionary movements and the difficulties to challenge international structures of power introduced a significant shift in the way time was thought and experienced.
Laura Petrauskaitė — Bolivian, Mexican and Ecuadorian Art Exhibitions in Soviet Lithuania
In her research project, based on the approaches of discourse analysis and art criticism, Laura explores the history of Bolivian, Mexican and Ecuadorian art exhibitions in Soviet Lithuania. In the second half of the 20th century Vilnius saw at least seven exhibitions presenting artists from ‘Latin America’.
Nicolás Perilla Reyes – Pablo Solano’s Fondos del Mar: Majorcan Informalism and Politics
In 1957, Colombian artist Pablo Solano arrived in Mallorca looking for a balmy atmosphere. Yet, that transit ended up in something more than only a hedonistic, touristic trip. This time marked a point of no return in his art life; that is, the decision to practice an informalist language thenceforth.
Franciska Nowel Camino – Interwoven Epistemologies. The Affirmative Reception of Latin American Textile Techniques in Art since 1950
In relation to the respective current political and social situation, the interest of artists in indigenous, supposedly precolonial, and historical artifacts and their traditions have gradually increased since the first archaeological excavations of the late 19th century. Catalyzed by colonial efforts in archeological excavation, textile art became a political discourse driven medium and material on a broader scale.
Fabriccio Miguel Novelli Duro — Temporalities of an Exhibition: Uncovering the “Brazilian Salon” between 1840 and 1884
During the nineteenth century, the Imperial Academy in Rio de Janeiro started to organize the “General Exhibitions”, an event based on the model of the Parisian Salon. Since its first edition, in 1840, until the last one held during the Imperial period, in 1884, the institution upheld 26 public events. The “Brazilian Salon” was the place where native or foreign artists could submit their work, exhibit it in the Academy palace, run for prizes and be awarded.
Benjamin Murphy – Second-Order Images: Reflexive Strategies in Early Latin American Video Art
The project addresses several works of early video art created by Latin American artists during the
1970s through an interdisciplinary perspective that explores the intersections between this novel
art form and various social science disciplines.
Juan Ricardo Rey Márquez – Ephemeral Models Enduring Depictions, Mutis and the Pursuit of the Ultimate Botanic Depiction Style
In this project, we will study the method of botanical art devices by Jose Celestino Mutis, director of the Botanic Expedition to New Granada. Mutis proposed to the Spanish Crown to conduct a revised edition of the work of Francisco Hernandez (ca. 1514-1578), who made the first botanic expedition to Hispanic America during the last quarter of the 16th-century.
Giulia Murace — Human, Natural, and Urban Landscapes of Rome at the Turn of the Twentieth Century in the Paintings of Rioplatense Artists
Between the late 19th and the early 20th century, many Argentine and Uruguayan artists travelled to, and settled in, Rome.
Larisa Mantovani — Productive Uses of Time (and not so much): Tensions between Decorative Arts and Industry in the Textile Production in Argentina
and labor perspective to problematize the production of textile art in the first decades of the 20th century in Argentina, in light of projects linked to technical education and industry.
