Situating No-Land: Videoart from Latin America
Apr 30, 2011 - Jun 30, 2011
Slought Foundation is pleased to announce Situating No-land: Videoart from Latin America, on display from April 30 through June 30, 2011. The exhibition has been curated by Buenos Aires-based curator Rodrigo Alonso, and organized for Slought Foundation by Osvaldo Romberg. An opening reception will take place on Saturday, April 30th from 6:30-8:30pm, with a presentation by the curator from 6:30-7:30pm. The project has been made possible in part through the generous support of the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania.
Probably it is not correct to speak of a Latin American video art. A region as vast and diverse as Latin America can not be easily reduced to a set of more or less common characteristics, no matter how extensive the criteria for their selection. Moreover, today the operation seems unnecessary. In a world which celebrates diversity, is suspicious of systems of representation, and which is looking to the singular and globally, it would be more appropriate to avoid any type of regionalism. However, the meeting of a group of electronic works produced in this area allows us to approximate a particular way of seeing and thinking and to consider specific contexts of production. From this perspective, it is possible to find affinities, to propose particular lines of thought, to confront visions and realities, and to question our ways of seeing in order to open new fields of analysis and reflection.
The works in this exhibition investigate social, political and cultural situations that are specific to their particular context. Situated between the document and its staging, between the field of study and a more ironic gaze, they address a variety of singular environments where questions pertaining to to history, politics, community and gender are manifest. Each work, in its own way, questions its sociocultural environment and responds from a particular viewpoint. Avoiding generalizations, in this way these works form a brief overview of contemporary video art, in that uncertain territory we know as Latin America.
Probably it is not correct to speak of a Latin American video art. A region as vast and diverse as Latin America can not be easily reduced to a set of more or less common characteristics, no matter how extensive the criteria for their selection. Moreover, today the operation seems unnecessary. In a world which celebrates diversity, is suspicious of systems of representation, and which is looking to the singular and globally, it would be more appropriate to avoid any type of regionalism. However, the meeting of a group of electronic works produced in this area allows us to approximate a particular way of seeing and thinking and to consider specific contexts of production. From this perspective, it is possible to find affinities, to propose particular lines of thought, to confront visions and realities, and to question our ways of seeing in order to open new fields of analysis and reflection.
The works in this exhibition investigate social, political and cultural situations that are specific to their particular context. Situated between the document and its staging, between the field of study and a more ironic gaze, they address a variety of singular environments where questions pertaining to to history, politics, community and gender are manifest. Each work, in its own way, questions its sociocultural environment and responds from a particular viewpoint. Avoiding generalizations, in this way these works form a brief overview of contemporary video art, in that uncertain territory we know as Latin America.
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Slought Foundation is pleased to announce Situating No-land: Videoart from Latin America, on display from April 30 through June 30, 2011. The exhibition has been curated by Buenos Aires-based curator Rodrigo Alonso, and organized for Slought Foundation by Osvaldo Romberg. An opening reception will take place on Saturday, April 30th from 6:30-8:30pm, with a presentation by the curator from 6:30-7:30pm. The project has been made possible in part through the generous support of the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania.
Probably it is not correct to speak of a Latin American video art. A region as vast and diverse as Latin America can not be easily reduced to a set of more or less common characteristics, no matter how extensive the criteria for their selection. Moreover, today the operation seems unnecessary. In a world which celebrates diversity, is suspicious of systems of representation, and which is looking to the singular and globally, it would be more appropriate to avoid any type of regionalism. However, the meeting of a group of electronic works produced in this area allows us to approximate a particular way of seeing and thinking and to consider specific contexts of production. From this perspective, it is possible to find affinities, to propose particular lines of thought, to confront visions and realities, and to question our ways of seeing in order to open new fields of analysis and reflection.
The works in this exhibition investigate social, political and cultural situations that are specific to their particular context. Situated between the document and its staging, between the field of study and a more ironic gaze, they address a variety of singular environments where questions pertaining to to history, politics, community and gender are manifest. Each work, in its own way, questions its sociocultural environment and responds from a particular viewpoint. Avoiding generalizations, in this way these works form a brief overview of contemporary video art, in that uncertain territory we know as Latin America.
Probably it is not correct to speak of a Latin American video art. A region as vast and diverse as Latin America can not be easily reduced to a set of more or less common characteristics, no matter how extensive the criteria for their selection. Moreover, today the operation seems unnecessary. In a world which celebrates diversity, is suspicious of systems of representation, and which is looking to the singular and globally, it would be more appropriate to avoid any type of regionalism. However, the meeting of a group of electronic works produced in this area allows us to approximate a particular way of seeing and thinking and to consider specific contexts of production. From this perspective, it is possible to find affinities, to propose particular lines of thought, to confront visions and realities, and to question our ways of seeing in order to open new fields of analysis and reflection.
The works in this exhibition investigate social, political and cultural situations that are specific to their particular context. Situated between the document and its staging, between the field of study and a more ironic gaze, they address a variety of singular environments where questions pertaining to to history, politics, community and gender are manifest. Each work, in its own way, questions its sociocultural environment and responds from a particular viewpoint. Avoiding generalizations, in this way these works form a brief overview of contemporary video art, in that uncertain territory we know as Latin America.
Artists on show
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Thursday - Saturday
1:00 - 6:00 PM
4017 Walnut Street University City - Philadelphia, PA, USA 19104
