"Transnational Latin American Art: From 1950 to the Present Day" November 6 - 8, 2009

The University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin Department of Art and Art History to Co-Host "Transnational Latin American Art: From 1950 to the Present Day"
November 6 - 8, 2009
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Event: "Transnational Latin American Art: From 1950 to the Present Day" is the first forum of its kind to promote contacts and collaborative work between graduate students and emerging scholars in the field of contemporary Latin American art. The forum is a collaboration between The Permanent Seminar in Latin American Art at The University of Texas at Austin and Meeting Margins at University of Essex and the University of the Arts London. Addressing artistic production from 1950 to the present day, the forum concerns intra-Latin American exchanges as well as encounters between Latin America, Europe and the USA. It will explore contacts between individual artists and critics, movements, groups, institutions and wider geopolitical and cultural contexts that have supported and provoked them. It will also explore the particular forms of art and its reception that transnational exchanges have generated.

When: November 6 – 8, 2009

Where: ACES Building 2.302, Avaya Auditorium

Website: http://www.finearts.utexas.edu/aah/art_history/special_programs/latin_seminar/about.cfm

Background: In 2008, the Department of Art and Art History welcomed Professor Andrea Giunta and Associate Professor Roberto Tejada to its faculty, where they established the Permanent Seminar in Latin American Art. Focusing on Latin American and U.S. Latino art, the permanent seminar is an open-ended research space dedicated to the creative production of knowledge; participation includes graduate students, artists, art historians and critics from UT and from Latin America. Within this context, Professor Giunta spearheaded collaboration with "Meeting Margins: Transnational Art in Europe & Latin America 1950-1978." Meeting Margins is three-year research project funded by the United Kingdom Arts & Humanities Research Council. It proposes a new approach to the study of Latin America, one that questions the role traditionally ascribed to New York as the dominant force in modern art in the post-war years, and focuses on artistic exchanges between Europe and Latin America as well as intra-Latin American exchanges. It is a collaboration between the Department of Art History & Theory, University of Essex and the TrAIN Research Centre, and University of the Arts London.