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The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; The Graduate Center, City University of New York; and the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) are pleased to announce the Fourth Annual Symposium of Latin American Art. Erasures: Excision and Indelibility in the Art of the Americas will be held in New York on April 11 and 12, 2019.
Symposium panelists will interrogate the role of erasures in the visual culture of the Americas, provoking discussions that span geographies, temporalities, and disciplines. Possible topics may include:
- Examples of indelible cultural production, both entrenched in and detached from material objects
- Eradication of geographical borders from maps or other records
- Iconoclasm, either as destruction or catharsis
- Museological and institutional approaches to gaps in collections and archives
- Ephemeral materials and the conservation of impermanent objects
- The vulnerability of knowledge and expression enshrined in site- and time-specific, embodied, and non-textual practices
- Silence and pause in text- and sound-based artistic forms
- The refusal to be recorded and the agency of choosing to be forgotten
- The intentional destruction of (one’s own) work as an artistic act
- Elision and dissolution of racialized identities through mestizaje and other discourses
- Intentional or unintentional omission from canons of art history (e.g. art from Latinx, Caribbean, LGBTQI, disabled, or other marginalized communities)