'Art ⇔ Archives: Latin America and Beyond', foro en Austin 15-17 Octubre

Me encuentro en Austin para participar del encuentro Art ⇔ Archive: Latin America and Beyond, organizado por el Center for Latin American Visual Studies (coordinado por Andrea Giunta y Roberto Tejada) del Departamento de Historia del Arte de la Universidad de Texas en Austin, en colaboración con la Universidad Autónoma de México y la Universidad de Barcelona. Esta es la segunda edición de este Forum que aspira a convertirse en una instancia imprescindible de discusión crítica sobre estudios visuales latinoamericanos, y que en esta segunda oportunidad tiene al tema de 'archivos' como eje principal de discusión. El número de intervenciones ha sido prácticamente triplicados y los debates se ven altamente complejos e interesantes. Debo agradecer, por cierto, a la Fundación Cisneros que me otorgó una beca de movilidad para asistir a este encuentro. Reproduzco de momento (y por el escaso tiempo) información muy suscinta del Forum. Se puede ver más aquí, y el programa completo aquí. Colgaré pronto algunas notas sobre mi intervención (que gira en torno a las enormes potencialidades, mímesis y redefiniciones críticas del proyecto del Museo Travesti del Perú de Giuseppe Campuzano en torno a la noción y prácticas de 'archivo' --su archivo travesti--, una discusión que me importa muchísimo), pronto.
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Art ⇔ Archives: Latin America and Beyond
International Research Forum for Graduate Students and Emerging Scholars
15 – 17 October 2010 – The University of Texas at Austin

It gives us great pleasure to welcome you to the International Forum organized by the CLAVIS: Center for Latin American Visual Studies, Department of Art and Art History at University of Texas at Austin, 15-17 October 2010, in collaboration with the Universidad Autónoma de México and in association with the Universidad de Barcelona.

The forum is a pioneering event in the field of Latin American visual studies and its participants include graduate students, artists, art historians and critics from UT and from Latin America. We will share three extraordinary days of sessions to get to know and discuss the most recent research on Latino/Latin-American Art.

• Program: Please find it attached or download at <https://webspace.utexas.edu/af9725/Forum%202010%20PROGRAM%20.pdf>
• Selected Abstracts: <http://www.finearts.utexas.edu/aah/files/2010_Selected_Abstracts.pdf>
• Selected Papers: <https://webspace.utexas.edu/af9725/Selected%20Papers%20-%202010%20Forum.pdf>
• Permanent Seminar Blog: <http://blogs.utexas.edu/psla/art-o-archives/>
  

Art ⇔ Archives: Latin America and Beyond
The archive and its uses have concerned modern art and modernity writ large. At the crossroads of various epistemologies, and germane to the articulation of discourses, archives act as vehicles for research projects (both artistic and academic). They generate fictions poised between the well-kept secret and the open source. In the last several decades, there has been a marked return to questions involving the archive, particularly concerning Latin America. Given that authoritarian regimes throughout the region have often suppressed or destroyed archives, and because there has been negligence in terms of stewardship, it has become especially salient to return to the question of the archive, no longer as a luxury, but as a matter of political urgency. The forum will address how archives are constructed at various levels, from the national and international, to that of a research project or as part of artistic practice, as well as its use in exhibition displays.

The forum will consist of a series of small, parallel working sessions in order to engage participants in collective discussion and exchange.