1. VAC Opening Party
2. Magali Lara: Glaciers
3. Permanent Seminar in Latin American Art
4. Geography and Eyewitness: Andrea Giunta and Roberto Tejada in Conversation with Magali Lara
5. ART ⇔ ARCHIVES: LATIN AMERICA AND BEYOND From 1920 to Present
Please read below for more detailed information about these special events!!!
1. Visual Arts Center Opening Party
Friday, Sept 24th 9 -11pm
Join us as we kick off the Grand Opening Celebration Weekend at the Visual Arts Center! Enjoy a stimulating mix of festivities, libations and music from alumni DJs MenRG <http://www.menrg.org/> as you preview the inaugural exhibitions throughout the VAC’s five galleries.
Tickets: $30 per person / Free admission with UT ID
Tickets available at the door (cash only)
2. Magali Lara: Glaciers
Glaciers is a solo exhibition by Mexico-based artist Magali Lara, co-curated by Department of Art and Art History faculty member Dr. Andrea Giunta and former faculty member Dr. Roberto Tejada.
When: September 24, 2010 – October 23rd
About the exibition:
“Hazy caresses of graphite on paper. Quiver of curved lines so meandering in animation and music as to interlace. In Glaciers, multimedia artist Magali Lara conveys sensorial excess as akin to her encounters with the colossal frozen mass found in Patagonia. Travel log of an experience, this work commands a voyage — drawings in blue and indigo to the sight and sound of ice collapsing. Insofar as drawings can trace an emotion, so too can music make metaphor of time’s reverberation: blue diamonds in crystalline water.
“This exhibition is meant to commemorate markers in the histories of Argentina and Mexico. It serves also as an allegory about distances that can separate specific geography from eyewitness — the space between the Perito Moreno Glacier in Argentina, and Magali Lara, a resident of Cuernavaca, Mexico. Its iconography bears no mark of national heroism or history, no battles or declarations, no link to institutional narratives or iconic accounts. Magali Lara displaces history with her individual observation of nature.
“A contemplative experience, this work gives way to a concert of images, chromatic intensities, and movements, and to an interface with sound. (Ana Lara, a contemporary composer and the artist’s sister, created the score.) In Glaciers, Magali Lara coins a vocabulary for depicting a state of emergency and vanishing lines of a journey. She celebrates the physical world in its immensity, distance, and awesome beauty, even as she tells the story of nature’s suspended state: a stand-in for personal loss and grieving.
— Dr. Andrea Giunta and Dr. Roberto Tejada
CLAVIS, Center for Latin American Visual Studies <http://www.finearts.utexas.edu/aah/art_history/special_programs/clavis.cfm>
Magali Lara lives and works in Cuernavaca, Mexico. She received her B.A. from the National School of Applied Arts in Mexico City in 1977 and has exhibited at the National Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City and the National Museum in Havana, Cuba. Lara’s works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City.
3. Permanent Seminar in Latin American Art
When: Saturday, Sept 25th > 6 to 9pm
Our guest, Magali Lara will present and lead a very engaging conversation with the participants of the Permanent Seminar on the many aspects of her work.
This special meeting of the Permanent Seminar will be at the CLAVIS’ brand new Office (ART 3.434) and the participants will then coordinate the dishes for the usual potluck.
RSVP for the meeting of the permanent seminar is highly appreciated so we can finalize the plans accordingly.
Please take 2 minutes of your time to sign up for the potluck at: http://www.mysignuplist.com and enter the passkey: PS-Sept25
**Below you will find other available dates for your presentation on the Permanent Seminar
4. Geography and Eyewitness: Andrea Giunta and Roberto Tejada in Conversation with Magali Lara
When: Sunday, Sept 26th > 3 to 4 pm
In her video animation and drawings, multimedia artist Magali Lara creates Glaciers by way of an eyewitness account: a travel log about the artist’s experience in Patagonia. Professors Andrea Giunta and Roberto Tejada will engage the artist in a conversation about the distances that separate Argentina from Mexico in terms of geographic, national, historical, and personal narratives. Magali Lara celebrates the physical world in its overwhelming beauty, even as she tells the story of nature’s suspended state: a stand-in for private loss and grieving.
This conversation will be part of the VAC’s Grand Opening Public Programs, consisting of a multitude of tours, conversations and performances to stimulate your intellect. For the complete schedule go to: http://www.utexas.edu/finearts/vac/programs/vac-grand-opening-public-programs
5. 2nd International Research Forum for Graduate Students and Emerging Scholars.
When: 15 – 17 October
ART ⇔ ARCHIVES: LATIN AMERICA AND BEYOND From 1920 to Present
International Research Forum for Graduate Students and Emerging Scholars
15 – 17 October 2010 – The University of Texas at Austin
Thopson Conference Center
CLAVIS – The Center for Latin American Visual Studies presents The 2nd International Research Forum for Graduate Students and Emerging Scholars organized 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.
ART ⇔ ARCHIVES: LATIN AMERICA AND BEYOND
The archive and its uses have concerned modern art and modernity writ large. 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. 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 ART ⇔ ARCHIVES, will consist of a series of small, parallel working sessions in order to engage participants in collective discussion and exchange.
You can find more information about the forum, the complete program and downloads please refer to the Permanent Seminar Blog <http://blogs.utexas.edu/psla/art-o-archives/> .
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**Sign up for the Permanent Seminar Meetings**
The next meetings of the Permanent Seminar will be held every Thursday at CLAVIS. Please feel free to propose ideas alternatives to presentations such as an article, movie, or exhibition you want to discuss with the group.
Permanent Seminar Presentations Fall 2010
SEPTEMBER:
Sat, Sept 25th at 6pm
- Visiting Artist Magali Lara
Thursday Sept 30th
- Luis Adrian Vargas – Doctoral Prospectus.
- OPEN
OCTOBER:
7th OPEN / 14th OPEN
21st
- Alexis Salas
- Erik Mock
28th
- Maritere Rodriguez – Thesis Prospectus
- OPEN
NOVEMBER:
4th
- Tatiana Reinoza Perkins
Chicano avatars: the electronic body and Chicano art - Open
11th OPEN / 18th OPEN
DECEMBER:
2nd / OPEN
The Permanent Seminar blog: http://blogs.utexas.edu/psla/
CLAVIS on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Austin/CLAVIS-Center-for-Latin-American-Visual-Studies/108673225832276
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The Permanent Seminar in Latin American Art is an initiative begun by Professors Andrea Giunta <agiunta@mail.utexas.edu> and Roberto Tejada <tejada@mail.utexas.edu> September 2008 that continues with their efforts, along with the support of the Department of Art and Art History and the College of Fine Arts.
André França
Coordinator, Center for Latin American Visual Studies
[CLAVIS: Modern + Contemporary Art]
The University of Texas at Austin
Department of Art and Art History, College of Fine Arts
ART 3.343A 1 University Station D1300
Austin, TX 78712
andre@mail.utexas.edu
clavis@austin.utexas.edu