Overview

In Collective Situations scholars, artists, and art collectives present a range of socially engaged art practices that emerged in Latin America during the Pink Tide period, between 1995 and 2010. This volume's essays, interviews, and artist's statements-many of which are appearing in English for the first time-demonstrate the complex relationship between moments of political transformation and artistic production. Whether addressing human rights in Colombia, the politics of urban spaces in Brazil, the violent legacy of military dictatorships in the region, or art's intersection with public policy, health, and the environment, the contributors outline the region's long-standing tradition of challenging ideas about art and the social sphere through experimentation. Introducing English-language readers to some of the most dynamic and innovative contemporary art in Latin America, Collective Situations documents new possibilities for artistic practice, collaboration, and creativity in ways that have the capacity to foster vibrant forms of democratic citizenship. Contributors Gavin Adams, Mariola V. Alvarez, Gustavo Buntinx, Maria Fernanda Cartagena, David Gutierrez Castaneda, Fabian Cereijido, Paloma Checa-Gismero, Kency Cornejo, Raquel de Anda, Bill Kelley Jr., Grant H. Kester, Suzanne Lacy, Ana Longoni, Rodrigo Marti, Elize Mazadiego, Annie Mendoza, Alberto Muenala, Prerana Reddy, Maria Reyes Franco, Pilar Riano-Alcala, Juan Carlos Rodriguez

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Author:   Bill Kelley Jr. ,  Grant H. Kester
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Weight:   0.726kg
ISBN:  

9780822369264

ISBN 10:   0822369265
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   03 November 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction / Grant Kester and Bill Kelley Jr.  1 Part I. (Un)Civil Disobedience  19 1. Lava la bandera: The Colectivo Sociedad Civil and the Cultural Overthrow of the Fujimori-Montesinos Dictatorship / Gustavo Buntinx  21 2. Interview with Caleb Duarte of EDELO Residencia / Raquel de Anda  43 3. Grupo Etcétera: Project Description / Rodrigo Martí  58 An Interview with Etcétera / Etcétera  62 4. Artistas en Resistencia: Project Description / Kency Cornejo  79 An Interview with Artistas en Resistencia / Kency Cornejo  83 5. A Long Way: Argentine Artistic Activism of the Last Decades / Ana Longoni  98 Part II. Urbanism  113 6. Galatea/bulbo Collective: Project Description / Mariola V. Alvarez  117 ""Participación"" (2008) and Tijueneados Anóminos (2008-2009) / Bulbo  120 7. Interview with Tranvía Cero / María Fernanda Cartagena  130 8. Art Collectives and the Prestes Maia Occupation in São Paulo / Gavin Adams  149 9. Frente 3 de FevereiroProject Description / Rodrigo Martí  165 The Becoming World of Brazil / Fremte 3 de Fevereiro  169 10. Interview with Mauricio Brandão of BijaRi, October 9, 2011 / Mariola V. Alvarez  186 Part III. Memory  199 11. Skins of Memory: Art, Civic Pedagogy, and Social Reconstruction / Pilar Riaño Alcalá and Suzanne Lacy  203 12. Some Frameworking Concepts for Art and Social Practices in Colombia / David Gutiérrez Castañeda  220 13. Chemi Rosado-Seijo: Project Description / Marina Reyes Franco  241 An Interview with Chemi Rosado-Seijo / Sofía Gallisá Muriente, Marina Reyes Franco, and Beatriz Santiago Muñoz  245 Part IV. Indigeneity  255 14. Ala Plastica: Project Description / Fabian Cerejido  259 Otros-Nosotros: An Interview with Ala Plastica / Grant Kester  261 15. Interviwe with Pablo Sanaguano / Maria Fernanda Cartagena  279 16. The Empowerment Process of Community Communication in Ecuador / Alberto Muenala  297 Part V. Migrations  305 17. Of Co-Investigations and Aesthetic Sustenance: A Conversation / Colectivo Situaciones and Electronic Disturbance Theater / B.A.N.G. Lab  309 18. How Three Artists Led the Queens Museum into Corona and Beyond / Prerana Reddy  321 Part VI. Institutional Critique  339 19. Lurawi, Doing: An Anarchist Experience—Ch'ixi / LXS Colectiverxs  343 20. Con la Salud si se Juega: Project Description / Fabian Cerejido  367 The Tournament: Nodes of a Network Made of Undisciplined Knowledge / Juan Carlos Rodríguez  369 21. La Lleca Colectiva: Project Description / Elize Mazadiego  388 Exodus to La Lleca: Exiting from ""Art"" and ""Politics"" in Mexico / La Lleca  391 22. La Línea: Project Description / Elize Mazadiego  403 The Morras Project / Interdisciplinario la Línea/La Línea Interdisciplinary Group: Abril Castro, Esmeralda Ceballos, Kara Lynch, Lorena Mancilla, and Sayak Valencia-Miriam García   406 Contributors  413 Index  423  

Reviews

-Collective Situations offers an impressive survey of the artistic, activist, and collective work being done today in Latin America, making it an invaluable contribution to the intersections between Latin American studies, visual arts, performance studies, and indigenous studies. Readers will learn an enormous amount from its capacious scope.---Diana Taylor, author of -Performance -

Collective Situations offers an impressive survey of the artistic, activist, and collective work being done today in Latin America, making it an invaluable contribution to the intersections between Latin American studies, visual arts, performance studies, and indigenous studies. Readers will learn an enormous amount from its capacious scope. -- Diana Taylor, author of * Performance *

Collective Situations offers an impressive survey of the artistic, activist, and collective work being done today in Latin America, making it an invaluable contribution to the intersections between Latin American studies, visual arts, performance studies, and indigenous studies. Readers will learn an enormous amount from its capacious scope. -- Diana Taylor, author of Performance

Author Information

Bill Kelley Jr. is Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino Art History at California State University, Bakersfield.  Grant H. Kester is Professor of Art History at the University of California, San Diego; author of The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context and editor of Art, Activism, and Oppositionality: Essays from Afterimage, both also published by Duke University Press; and author of Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art.

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