imaginarios materiales: Small Symposium on Art and Cultural Theories from Latin America
Material imaginary worlds –imaginarios materiales– are effects of „collective aesthetics“. The influential Peruvian theorist Juan Acha (1916-1995) advocated placing them at the centre of all art and cultural studies. The symposium presents theses and research work that can be read in the context of this dictum. Various approaches to art and cultural theory from Latin America will be taken up and applied to different subject areas. All contributions are located in the context of dissertation projects at the IKW. In each case, the analytical perspective is also supported by a normative turn towards what Acha called an „independent visual culture“.
claudia* sandoval romero
De(s)colonial Search for Contact Zones in mumok’s Collection and Exhibitions, 1998–2018: A Relational Case Between the Photographic Work of Nora Aslan (AR) and Rochelle Costi (BR) and the Museological Framework
Mauricio Ianes
Art, Authorship and “Indigenous Contemporary Art”
Guilherme Mata
"Anthropophagie, eine gescheiterte symbolische Revolution?
Ästhetisierung der Politik X Politisierung der Kunst im Brasilien der 1930er Jahre”.
Hannah Katalin Grimmer
Die Kunst kommender Welten. Chilenische Künstlerinnen als Akteurinnen der Erinnerung
Martín Guerra Muente
Espectros latinoamericanos: art, politics and neoliberalism in the international context