Report on the Academy “Spaces of Art: Concepts and Impacts In an Outside Latin America”
by Laura Karp Lugo (LMU München/DFK Paris) The AcademyFrom October 26th to November 3rd, 2019, the Transregional Academy on Latin...
Kategorie: Spaces of Art
TA Mexico 2019
Art and Indigenous Performance: A Workshop with Three Zapatista Muralists
by Melanie Vietmeier (Nantes) Within the framework of the Transregional Academy “Spaces of Art. Concepts and Impacts in and outside...
The Day of the Dead
by Laura Karp Lugo (LMU München/DFK Paris) The Day of the Dead has a pivotal and communal importance in Mexico....
A Visit to Teotihuacán
by Laura Karp Lugo (LMU München/DFK Paris) On Sunday morning, the participants and steering group of the Transregional Academy...
Art in Tight Spaces
Having added to the Academy’s program various excursions to museums and sights connected to the Academy’s theme, discussions on art...
First Day of the Academy
The Academy “Spaces of Art: Concepts and Impacts in and outside Latin America” has started. On the first day the...
Ana Bilbao: Can Museums Learn from Small Visual Arts Organisations (SVAOs)? Transregional Curating in the Global South
Small Visual Arts Organisations (SVAOs) are structurally small, non-profit spaces that are dedicated to the production and the dissemination of...
Laura Bohnenblust: ARTE FLOTANTE – ARTE RODANTE: Travelling Exhibitions in the Art of Argentina around 1956
In her presentation, Laura Bohnenblust takes Argentina’s floating exhibition la primera exposición flotante de cincuenta pintores Argentinos as a starting...
Lara Demori: Maternal “Artivism”: mapping the political body in Latin American women artists (‘70s – ‘80s)
Adopting a visual strategy that recovers the tragic, creaturely, primordial and non-conciliatory values of maternity, Latin American women artists investigate...
Savannah Esquivel: Walking among the Dead in the Monastery: Silences and (In)visibilities in Sixteenth Century New Spain
This project addresses conceptions of monastic space in sixteenth-century Novohispanic Franciscan chronicles. Focusing on Gerónimo de Mendieta’s ca. 1595 account...
Pablo Fasce: The Aesthetic Imagination and the Andean World: Itineraries and Exchanges of Artists through the Argentinian Northwest Region, Bolivia and Peru (1910-1955)
In this research project, I intend to investigate the contribution made by Argentine artists to the itineraries, aesthetic debates and...
Milena Gallipoli: The Louvre in America: Plaster Cast Purchases and Consumption at the Atelier de Moulage during the end of the nineteenth century
Ever since its creation in 1794, the Atelier de Moulage du Musée du Louvre took part in an active commerce...
Matthijs Jonker: Negotiating the Representation of Natural History between Mexico and Europe
In recent years globalizing approaches have become more and more popular in the historiography of art and science. This development...
Elsaris Núñez Méndez: Sacred Marvel: Space and Prayer at the Ochavo Chapel in the Cathedral of Puebla
In 1959, Mircea Eliade stressed on the importance of the “hierophany”, or the irruption of the sacred, as a necessary...
Juan Ricardo Rey-Márquez: The Genesis of the Geography of Plants, a Case of the 18th Century Visual Epistemology in Hispanic America
The Prussian scientist Alexander von Humboldt (Berlin, 1769-1859) and his collaborator Aimé Bonpland (1773-1858) met the medical doctor and botanist...
