Symposium - Latin American Art and the UK
Symposium - Latin American Art and the UK, 1960s to the present
26 April 2008 10:00 ? 18:00
Department of Art History and Theory
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester
CO4 3SQ
United Kingdom
Telephone (UK): +44 01206 872200
Telephone (international): +44 1206 872200 http://www2.essex.ac.uk/arthistory/[6]
Attendance is free but places are limited.
RSVP to tcaragol@essex.ac.uk[7]
Symposium - Latin American Art and the UK, 1960s to the present
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The final symposium of the research project /Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art and the UK: history, historiography, specificity/
(LAUK) will be held at the University of Essex, Colchester Campus, on Saturday April 26.
Financed by a speculative grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, this year-long project is a preliminary investigation into the presence and critical reception of art and artists from Latin America in the UK from the 1960s to the present. Through the study of specific UK-based initiatives including exhibitions, publications, and the development of courses in academia, the project examines the role of the UK in generating an Anglophone body of knowledge on art from Latin America and identifies local curatorial trends and theoretical particularities in the field.
The final symposium brings together emerging and established scholars in the field as well as artists from Latin America resident in the UK.
Participants include Michael Asbury (Senior Research Fellow, University of the Arts London), Rocío Aranda-Alvarado (Curator, Jersey City Museum), Isabel Plante (Ph.D. candidate, Universidad de Buenos Aires), Guy Brett (independent writer and curator), Joanne Harwood (Assistant Director, University of Essex Collection of Latin American Art), Oriana Baddeley (Director of Research Camberwell College of Art, Co-Director TrAIN), Dawn Ades (Professor, University of Essex), Valerie Fraser (Principal Investigator, Latin American Art in the UK Project), Isobel Whitelegg and Taína Caragol (Senior Researcher and Research Officer, Latin American Art in the UK Project), and Latin American artists resident in London Jaime Gili, Ana Laura López, Eduardo Padilha, and Ofelia Rodríguez.
The event will culminate with a reception at Essex?s Hexagon to mark the launch of a limited edition of prints by Jaime Gili, commissioned by the University of Essex Collection of Latin American Art (UECLAA).
Details of the program can be accessed on http://www2.essex.ac.uk/arthistory/[11]
Attendance is free but places are limited. RSVP to tcaragol@essex.ac.uk[12]
This event is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Department of Art History and Theory, the Latin American Centre and the University of Essex Collection of Latin American Art.
