Thursday, October 25, 2012
Applied Computational Engineering and Sciences Building (ACE)
4 to 5 PM – Registration (ACE Lobby)
4:45 PM – Welcome – AVAYA Auditorium (ACE 2.302)
Douglas Dempster, Dean, College of Fine Arts (The University of Texas at Austin)
5 PM – Opening Remarks – AVAYA Auditorium (ACE 2.302)
Andrea Giunta (The University of Texas at Austin)
George Flaherty (The University of Texas at Austin)
5:30 PM – Keynote Speaker – AVAYA Auditorium (ACES 2.302)
Laura Malosetti Costa (Universidad Nacional de San Martín), Telescoping the Past from the Endless Plains
7 to 10 PM – Dinner Reception – Etter-Harbing Alumni Center, UTX
Friday, October 26, 2012
Union Building (UNB)
8:30 to 9 AM – Coffee
9 to 10:30 AM – Panel 1, UNB 3.208, Lone Star Room
DISOBEDIENCE / COLLABORATION
Discussant: Zanna Gilbert (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
- Juncia Avilés Cavasola (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
El monstruo de las mil cabezas: la representación de la represión en el cine del 68 mexicano
- Karen Benezra (Cornell University)
“Packaging an Idea”: On the Production and Consumption of Conceptual Art in Felipe Ehrenberg and the No-Grupo
- Arden Decker-Parks (The Graduate Center, The City University of New York)
Secuestros artísticos: Abduction as Institutional Critique in the Work of Proceso Pentágono and No-Grupo
- Carla Macchiavello (Universidad de los Andes)
Being Dodgy: Questionable Disobedience in Recent Latin American Art
9 to 10:30 AM – Panel 2, UNB 4.224, Asian Culture Room
(IN)VISIBLE WOMEN?
Discussant: Deborah Dorotinsky (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
- Carolina Vanegas Carrasco (Instituto de Altos Estudios Sociales, Universidad Nacional de San Martín)
La Pola, un lugar de memoria
- Georgina Gabriela Gluzman (Instituto de Altos Estudios Sociales, Universidad Nacional de San Martín/Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas)
La primera artista argentina: Lola Mora y la construcción mítica de una heroína
- Josefina de la Maza Chevesich (State University of New York at Stony Brook)
Obscured Women and Renowned Men: History Painting and the Foundation of the City of Santiago
- Julia Ariza (Instituto de Altos Estudios Sociales, Universidad Nacional de San Martín/Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas)
Artes/oficios y otras (a)sincronías de la educación artística femenina en la Argentina del cambio de siglo y más allá
10:30 to 11 AM – Coffee Break
11 AM to 12:30 PM – Panel 3, UNB 3.208, Lone Star Room
CREATIVE LABS
Discussant: Fernando Lara (The University of Texas at Austin)
- María Paz Amaro Cavada (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Cruzando abstracciones: dentro de la maquinaria utópica del arte contemporáneo
- Lisa Crossman (Tulane University)
Andrea Juan’s Poetics of Ecological Imbalance
- Elizabeth Donato (The Graduate Center, The City University of New York)
Poetic and Performative Pedagogies: Convergences Between the Valparaíso Architecture School and Le Corbusier
11 AM to 12:30 PM – Panel 4, UNB 4.224, Asian Culture Room
PICTURING ABSTRACTION
Discussant: María Gaztambide (International Center for Arts of the Americas, MFAH)
- Juanita Solano (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
Irrumpiendo la modernidad: la fotografía abstracta de Leo Matiz
- Nadia Moreno Moya (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Una suerte de abstracción americanista: apuntes sobre el trabajo de Marco Ospina
- Christian Larsen (The Bard Graduate Center)
Divergent Modernism and Decolonized Design in Brazil’s Módulo Magazine
12:30 to 2 PM Lunch – UNB 3.304, Quadrangle Room
2 to 3:30 PM – Panel 5, UNB 3.208, Lone Star Room
MODERNIST INTERLUDES
Discussant: Tadeu Chiarelli (Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo)
- Alexander Gaiotto Miyoshi (Universidade Federal de Uberlândia/ Universidade de São Paulo)
Picturing Migration: The Italian Diaspora in Painting, Literature, and Photography (1889-1910)
- Lauren Albie Kaplan (The Graduate Center, The City University of New York)
Transatlantic Voyage: The Homecoming of Emilio Pettoruti and Xul Solar
- Catalina Fara (Instituto de Altos Estudios Sociales, Universidad Nacional de San Martín/Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas)
La ciudad proletaria. Imágenes de Buenos Aires en la obra de los Artistas del Pueblo (1912-1935)
- Cecilia Absalón Huízar (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
1939: Juan Guzmán en la Ciudad de México. Una Historia de Exilio y Adopción
2 to 3:30 PM – Panel 6, UNB 4.224, Asian Culture Room
SHIFTING CANONS
Discussant: Alexis Salas (The University of Texas at Austin)
- Catalina Valdés Echenique (Instituto de Altos Estudios Sociales, Universidad Nacional de San Martín/Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)
Causa común. Pintura de paisaje latinoamericana de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX
- Josué Martínez Rodríguez (Universidad Veracruzana)
Revisando el canon: la artisticidad fotográfica en el México revolucionario
- Ingrid W. Elliott (University of Chicago)
Guy Pérez Cisneros’ Tropical Baroque and the Politics of Desire
- Alessandro Armato (Instituto de Altos Estudios Sociales, Universidad Nacional de San Martín)
José Gómez Sicre y Marta Traba: historias paralelas
2 to 3:30 PM – ART 3.434, CLAVIS
WORKSHOP: GAMES AND PLAY WITHIN TWENTIETH-CENTURY LATIN AMERICAN ARTISTIC PRACTICES
*Only registered participants may attend the workshop
3:30 to 4 PM – Coffee Break
4 to 5:30 PM – Panel 7, UNB 3.208, Lone Star Room
TECHNOLOGICAL VOYAGES
Discussant: Daniel Quiles (The School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
- Sebastian Vidal Valenzuela (The University of Texas at Austin)
Satelitenis – A video mail art experience between Santiago and New York
- Sarah Montross (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
Blossoming Mesoamerica: The “Cybernetic Escapades” of Enrique Castro-Cid
- Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra (University of Cambridge)
Matrixing (Soft)war: Parley, Network, and Ritual in Marcos Kurtycz’s Letter-Bombing Actions
-Mari Rodríguez (The University of Texas at Austin)
The Other São Paulo. Alternative Languages and Networks in the 70s and 80s
4 to 5:30 PM – Panel 8, UNB 4.224, Asian Culture Room
BORDERS OF THE PAST
Discussant: Laura Malosetti Costa (Universidad Nacional de San Martín)
- Fábio D’Almeida Lima Maciel (Universidade de São Paulo)
Eadweard Muybridge, Pedro Américo e a pintura Independência ou Morte
- Fernanda Mendonça Pitta (Universidade de São Paulo)
Preserving the Past, Erasing the Present: The “Documentation” of Countrymen Habits in José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior’s Museu Paulista Paintings
- Mariana Hartenthal (Southern Methodist University)
The Cangaceiros: Superficial Luxury in the Brazilian Backlands
- José Mariano Klautau de Araújo Filho (Escola de Comunicação e Artes, Universidade de São Paulo)
Miguel Rio Branco e o livro Nakta – Aproximações do objeto fotográfico e as tensões da imagem
Image credit: Gonzalo Díaz, “Unidos en la gloria y la muerte,” 1997. Design: Cara Jackson.
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Union Building (UNB)
10:30 to 11 AM – Coffee
11 AM to 12:30 PM – Panel 9, UNB 3.128, Sinclair Suite
UNFOLDING THE ARCHIVE
Discussant: Andrea Giunta (The University of Texas at Austin)
- Ana María Reyes (University of Chicago)
Art as Occupation: The Case of Beatriz González and Doris Salcedo in Auras Anónimas (2009)
- Vanessa C. Raabe (University of California, Los Angeles)
After the End of History: 19th-Century Revivals in Post-Dictatorship Chilean Photography
- Ileana Lucia Selejan (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
Darkroom Revolutions. Nicaragua at the Turn of the 80s
- Fernanda Albertoni (Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity, University of the Arts London)
A ambigüidade da memória no arquivo em arte: atos de lembrar e esquecer em duas gerações de artistas no Brasil – o trabalho de Rosângela Rennó e Jonathas de Andrade
11 AM to 12:30 PM – Panel 10 UNB, 3.116 Texas Governors’ Room
WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS: GAMES AND PLAY WITHIN TWENTIETH-CENTURY LATIN AMERICAN ARTISTIC PRACTICES
*Open to public
Coordinator: Doris Bravo (The University of Texas at Austin)
Discussant: TBD
-Doris Bravo (The University of Texas at Austin)
Tournaments in the Sand: The School of Valparaíso’s Games at the Open City
-Kanitra Fletcher (Cornell University)
Marepe and the Politics of Re-creation
-Pauline Bachmann (Freie Universität Berlin)
Concrete Art and Embodied Knowledge: Brazilian Neoconcretism in Transcultural Perspective
-Patricia de la Torre (Universidad Nacional de Cuyo)
Payamédicos: Play and Healing. A Theatrical Game Therapy in Pediatric Hospitals
12:30 to 2 PM Lunch – UNB 3.502, Santa Rita Suite
2 to 3:30 PM – Panel 11, UNB 3.128, Sinclair Suite
VIOLENCE OF THE BODY
Discussant: Dorota Biczel (The University of Texas at Austin)
- Erin L. McCutcheon (Tulane University)
1975, International Women’s PUTAS’ Year. El Museo de Arte Moderno’s La Mujer Como Creadora y Tema del Arte
- Kimberli Gant (The University of Texas at Austin)
It’s Funny, But Serious: The Work of Nao Bustamante
- Megan Lorraine Debin (University of California, Los Angeles)
Bloody Body Doubles: Performance Against Violence in Mexico
- Sophie Halart (University College London)
Epidermal Cartographies: Mapping Skin and Femininity in the Southern Cone
2 to 3:30 PM – Panel 12, UNB, 3.116 Texas Governors’ Room
PLACING LATINIDAD
Discussant: Tomás Ybarra-Frausto (Independent Scholar)
- Victor M. Espinosa (Ohio State University)
Imagining a Transnational World: Migration, Memory, and Displacement in the Work of Martín Ramírez
- Tatiana Reinoza (The University of Texas at Austin)
Making Puerto Rican Philadelphia: The Birth of Taller Puertorriqueño
- Adrian Anagnost (University of Chicago)
Gordon Matta-Clark as Latino Artist and the Politics of City Space
- Annabela Tournon (École des Hautes en Sciences Sociales)
Los Grupos y los Chicanos : el conceptualismo mexicano « al norte »
3:30 to 4 PM – Coffee Break, UNB
4 to 5:30 PM – Panel 13, UNB 3.128, Sinclair Suite
TRAVELING IMAGINARIES
Discussant: George Flaherty (The University of Texas at Austin)
- Paulina Millán Vargas (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
La representación del teatro guiñol en el Papaloapan (1956)
- Mireida Velázquez Torres (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
México en el imaginario estadounidense: Estereotipos y recepción cultural (1922-1930)
- Rachel Kaplan (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
Exhibition and Exchange: Conversations on Mexican Modern Art at Home and Abroad in 1940
4 to 5:30 PM – Panel 14, UNB, 3.116 Texas Governors’ Room
GENDERED & QUEERED BODIES
Discussant: Luis Vargas-Santiago (The University of Texas at Austin)
- Susana Vargas Cervantes (McGill University)
¡Qué lio, no se sabe si es mujer u hombre! “Mujercitos” in Nota Roja in Mexico
- Robb Hernandez (University of California, Riverside)
Covergirls and Centerfolds: The Queer Image/Text Strategies of VIVA Arts Quarterly Journal, 1990-2001
- Natalia Pineau (Universidad de Buenos Aires/Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas)
La obra de Marcelo Pombo. Articulaciones entre lo íntimo y lo público en la escena del arte de Buenos Aires en la década de 1990
- Cynthia Francica (The University of Texas at Austin)
Surfaces and Gender Haunting in Allyson Mitchell’s Ladies Sasquatch and Nicola Costantino’s Human Furriery: A Comparative Reading
5:30 to 7 PM – Closing Remarks, UNB 3.304, Quadrangle Room
Amy Buono (Southern Methodist University)
Tadeu Chiarelli (Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo)
Deborah Dorotinsky (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
7 PM to 12 AM - Farewell Dinner and Party, UNB 3.502, Santa Rita Suite
Please notice that we will have three different venues on campus for the Forum:
Registration and Opening Remarks
Avaya Auditorium of the Applied Computational Engineering and Sciences Building (ACES),
201 East 24th Street
http://www.aces.utexas.edu/
Welcome Dinner Reception
Etter-Harbing Alumni Center (UTX), 2110 San Jacinto Boulevard
Across from the east side of the University Stadium
http://texasexes.org/
Panel Sessions
Union Building (UNB), Tower area of campus
http://www.utexas.edu/universityunions/texas-union/info
Closing Reception
Union Building (UNB), Quadrangle Room, 3.304, Tower area of campus
http://www.utexas.edu/universityunions/texas-union/info