[spectre] CFP: Highways of the South: Latin American Art Networks (Paris)

[Andreas Broeckmann]

From: Daniel Quiles <daniel.quiles4 at gmail.com>
Date: Feb 18, 2014
Subject: CFP: Highways of the South: Latin American Art Networks (Paris)


Deadline: Apr 15, 2014

Call For Papers

Special Issue of Artlas Bulletin

During the last fifteen years, Latin American art has been added to 
canons of twentieth-century modernism and postmodernism, in an apparent 
triumph for the field. The myriad exhibitions and scholarly texts that 
have contributed to this explosion of interest have taken different 
approaches to the transnational, networked character of the modernism 
and contemporary art of the region. From Inverted Utopias’ 
“constellations” of similar tendencies across disconnected countries to 
The Geometry of Hope’s inclusion of Paris as a “Latin American city” to 
Perder la forma humana’s vast network diagram of 1970s and 1980s 
artists, conceptual frameworks for survey exhibitions of abstraction, 
conceptual and performance practices have drawn on models of circulation 
and geographical interconnection. Likewise, Andrea Giunta’s Vanguardia, 
internacionalismo y política, Claire Fox’s Making Art Panamerican and 
Sérgio B. Martins’ Constructing an Avant-Garde, among a surfeit of 
recent books, have explored national and regional histories in terms of 
the institutional endeavor to promote particular artists, countries, or 
alliances within the international field. These networked approaches are 
in part a result of curators and scholars simply following the 
historical movements of individual artists, movements, publications, and 
exhibitions.

How might this focus on international networks and circulation reorient 
existing models of Latin American art history? This issue of the Artlas 
Bulletin calls for articles that attend not only to institutional 
initiatives, but to the ways that connection and movement have been 
incorporated into modern and contemporary works of art by Latin American 
artists. We welcome studies that consider networks and mobility as 
subject matter within representational art or art writing, as embedded 
in the forms of artworks themselves, or both. Topics might include, but 
would certainly not be limited to, manifestos written around the 
peregrinations of artists within and beyond the region, aesthetic 
philosophies grounded in mapping or reorienting geographies, 
relationships between abstraction and movement, the walks, marches or 
other mobile actions in public space, the use of maps as informational 
content or surrogate bodies in conceptualism and performance art, and 
explorations of border politics.

Artlas Bulletin is a free, online-only, peer-reviewed journal published 
by École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

Deadline for submissions: April 15, 2014 Please email to 
daniel.quiles4 at gmail.com

Reference / Quellennachweis:
CFP: Highways of the South: Latin American Art Networks (Paris). In: 
H-ArtHist, Feb 18, 2014. <http://arthist.net/archive/7039>.

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