Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa. A Requiem for Mirrors and Tigers

Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa. A Requiem for Mirrors and Tigers
Author: Frederique Bergholtz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2018
Genre:
ISBN: 9789492139115

Requiem for Mirrors and Tigers' is a series of six documented video performances by Guatemalan artist Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa. This series are based on interrelated performances and were produced for the camera in different places.00Exhibition: Grunt Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (22.02.-21.04.2018).

Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa: Requiem for Mirrors and Tigers

Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa: Requiem for Mirrors and Tigers
Author: Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2018
Genre:
ISBN: 9783943514988

Requiem for Mirrors and Tigers' is a series of six documented video performances by Guatemalan artist Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa. This series are based on interrelated performances and were produced for the camera in different places. Exhibition: Grunt Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (22.02.-21.04.2018).

Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa

Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa
Author: Natalie Bell
Publisher: New Museum/Kunsthalle Lissabon
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2018-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9780985448578

This first major monograph on Guatemalan multimedia artist Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa (born 1978) contextualizes his works in performance, sculpture, drawing and printmaking of the past ten years. Ramírez-Figueroa's installations often combine sculpture and aspects of avant-garde theater to allude to traumatic events that have shaped the political climate of present-day Guatemala. Ramírez-Figueroa expands on references to literature, folklore, magic and childhood memories. For this catalog, Catherine Wood, Senior Curator of Performance at Tate Modern, considers the artist's work through the lens of performance art, while Guatemalan Garifuna poet Wingston Gonzalez takes up its connections to the legacy of experimental theater in Latin America. Natalie Bell, Associate Curator at the New Museum, contributes an essay surveying selected bodies of work, and Kunsthalle Lissabon directors João Mourão and Luís Silva contribute an interview with the artist.

The Maya

The Maya
Author: Megan E. O’Neil
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2022-07-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1789145511

An illuminating look at the myriad communities who have engaged with the ancient Maya over the centuries. This book reveals how the ancient Maya—and their buildings, ideas, objects, and identities—have been perceived, portrayed, and exploited over five hundred years in the Americas, Europe, and beyond. Engaging in interdisciplinary analysis, the book summarizes ancient Maya art and history from the preclassical period to the Spanish invasion, as well as the history of outside engagement with the ancient Maya, from Spanish invaders in the sixteenth century to later explorers and archaeologists, taking in scientific literature, visual arts, architecture, world’s fairs, and Indigenous activism. It also looks at the decipherment of Maya inscriptions, Maya museum exhibitions and artists’ responses, and contemporary Maya people’s engagements with their ancestral past. Featuring the latest research, this book will interest scholars as well as general readers who wish to know more about this ancient, fascinating culture.

Latin American Literature in Transition 1980–2018: Volume 5

Latin American Literature in Transition 1980–2018: Volume 5
Author: Mónica Szurmuk
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 671
Release: 2022-12-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108982646

How do we address the idea of the literary now at the end of the second decade in the 21st century? Many traditional categories obscure or overlook significant contemporary forms of cultural production. This volume looks at literature and culture in general in this hinge period. Latin American Literature in Transition 1980-2018 examines the ways literary culture complicates national or area studies understandings of cultural production. Topics point to fresh, intersectional understandings of cultural practice, while keeping in mind the ongoing stakes in a struggle over material and intangible cultural and political borders that are being reinforced in formidable ways.

A Universal History of Infamy

A Universal History of Infamy
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2018
Genre:
ISBN: 9783943514803

A Universal History of Infamy' was a multi-pronged exhibition that opened across three different art spaces in Los Angeles County, with the support of the Getty Foundation, under Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. The ?A? in the title announces the shortcomings of any ?universal history? or comprehensive exhibition survey, which is particularly relevant considering the varied interests and experiences of US Latino and Latin American artists. The artists included upend any notion of absoluteness, whether it be in relationship to what defines Latin America, the art associated with it, or the methods of approaching its complex history. In addition to curatorial essays???all different in format and scope???this publication offers a look into the different perspectives, approaches, and scales highlighted at each of the show?s venues: an encyclopedic museum (LACMA), a school (Charles White Elementary School), and an artist residency complex (18th Street Arts Center).00Exhibition: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA (20.08.2017 - 19.02.2018) / Charles White Elementary School, Los Angeles, USA (09.12.2017 - 06.10.2018) / 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, USA (09.09.2017 - 15.12.2017).

The Latin American Photobook

The Latin American Photobook
Author: Horacio Fernández
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9781597111898

Compiled with the input of a committee of researchers, scholars, and photographers, 'The Latin American Photobook' presents 150 volumes from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, and Venezuela. It begins with the 1920s and continues up to today.

Visual Disobedience

Visual Disobedience
Author: Kency Cornejo
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2024-07-12
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1478059605

In Visual Disobedience, Kency Cornejo traces the emergence of new artistic strategies for Indigenous, feminist, and anticarceral resistance in the wake of torture, disappearance, killings, and US-funded civil wars in Central America. Cornejo reveals a direct line from US intervention to current forms of racial, economic, and gender injustice in the isthmus, connecting this to the criminalization and incarceration of migrants at the US-Mexico border today. Drawing on interviews with Central American artists and curators, she theorizes a form of “visual disobedience” in which art operates in opposition to nation-states, colonialism, and visual coloniality. She counters historical erasure by examining over eighty artworks and highlighting forty artists across the region. Cornejo also rejects the normalized image of the suffering Central American individual by repositioning artists as creative agents of their own realities. With this comprehensive exploration of contemporary Central American art, Cornejo highlights the role of visual disobedience as a strategy of decolonial aesthetics to expose and combat coloniality, heteropatriarchy, white supremacy, empire, and other systems of oppression.