Critical Interventions on Latin/o American Art: Beatriz Balantas / Natalia Brizuela / Claire Fox / Esther Gabara / Adriana Johnson / Suzanne Li Puma / China Medel / Adele Nelson / Fernando Rosenberg / Roberto Tejada / Alejandra Uslenghi

September 11, 2015
Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Friday, September 25th

9:00-10:30am – Sensitive Matter

  • Adele Nelson (Temple University): There is No Repetition: Hélio Oiticica’s Early Practice
  • Suzanne Li Puma (UC Berkeley): Mistranslating with Mira Schendel

10:45am-12:15pm – Poetics in/on/and Methods

  • Esther Gabara (Duke University): The Gesture of Non-Literary Fiction
  • Roberto Tejada (University of Houston): Oppen in/and Mexico: a Speculative Piece

12:15-1:45pm – LUNCH

2:00-3:30pm – Modern and Contemporary

  • Alejandra Uslenghi (Northwestern University): Learning to See: Victoria Ocampo at An American Place
  • Natalia Brizuela (UC Berkeley): Undone

3:45-6:00pm – Art/Politics

  • China Medel (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill): Not1More/Ni1Más: Movement and the Politics of Recognition
  • Fernando Rosenberg (Brandeis University): Art and Reparation in Colombia
  • Adriana Johnson (UC Irvine): Sound, Image and Questions of Scarcity

Saturday, September 26th

10:30am-12:00pm – The Politics of Culture

  • Claire Fox (U of Iowa): On the Conceptual Turn in Cultural Policy
  • Beatriz Balantas (SMU): Assthetics or the Carnality of the Brazilian State