Middle America: Visual Culture in Mexico and Central America
University of Essex Latin American Centre
Friday 20 March 2009
Programme
9.30 Registration and coffee
10.00 Joanne Harwood (University of Essex Collection of Latin American Art):
Yo no tengo patria: contemporary art from Central America
10.30 Tamara Diaz (TEOR-éTica, San José Costa Rica):
In Central America: Tactics of Intervention in the Public Sphere
11.00 Susannah Gilbert (University of Essex):
Felipe Ehrenberg's Aesthetic Revolution: Conceptualism, form and politics
11.30 discussion
12.00 lunch
1.00 Remembering Tim Laughton
1.30 Mary Scott (University of East Anglia):
Examining the Messages of Contemporary “Tourist Art” in Yucatán, Mexico: A Look at Two Major Production Centers
2.00 José Oliver (University College London):
Identity, Personhood, and the Circulation of Cemí Idols among Chiefs in the Caribbean
2.30 Hassan Arero (British Museum):
Art and Amerindian Identity in Guyana
3.00 discussion
3.30 tea
4.00 Gordon Brotherston (University of Manchester):
Monkey, armadillo, and jaguar: the Popol vuh and Ulua polychrome ceramics from Yojoa
4.45 concluding remarks
5.30 Talk by Dawn Ades (University of Essex) on exhibition of Mexican artist Francisco Toledo in the University Gallery, followed by a reception
Venue: LTB (Lecture Theatre Block)
FREE : ALL WELCOME
To register, or for further information, please email Suzanne Nolan, smnola@essex.ac.uk
University of Essex
Colchester
Essex CO4 3SQ
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Last updated 17 March 2009