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Touched Bodies: The Performative Turn in Latin American Art
Artist/Author: Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra | Reference: P4031 | ISBN: 9-781978-802025 | Type: Publication

What is the role of pleasure and pain in the politics of art?  Polgovsky Ezcurra approaches this question as she examines the flourishing of live and intermedial performance in Latin America during times of authoritarianism and its significance during transitions to democracy.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

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Border Brujo
Artist/Author: Guillermo Gómez-Peña | Reference: A0771 | Type: Article

A Performance Poem from the Series “Documented/Undocumented”.

Altars border Bottles Coco Fusco colonialism cultural occupation fetish Hispanics Latin America Mexico performance art prison art trans UK USA

Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960 - 1985
Editor: Cecilia Fajardo-Hill Andrea Giunta | Reference: P3464 | ISBN: 978-3791356808 | Type: Publication

Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Hammer Museum, LA. 15 September – 31 December 2017.

art history body Carla Stellweg Carmen María Jaramillo Connie Butler feminism gender Julia Antivilo Peña Karen Cordero Reiman Latin America Marcela Guerrero Maria Angélica Melendi Maria Laura Rosa Miguel A Lopez Monica Mayer painting performance art photography politics Rodrigo Alonso Rosina Cazali sculpture USA video women

Argentina’s Popular Uprising - newspaper
Artist/Author: Que Se Vayan Todos | Reference: P3319 | Type: Publication

An eyewitness account of the financial meltdown and ongoing grassroots rebellion.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

activism democracy economy human rights labour Latin America market money Occupation politics protest public space South America street universal declaration of human rights

Nurtured by Knowledge: Learning to Do Participatory Action Research
Editor: Susan E. Smith, Dennis G. Willms, Nancy A. Johnson | Reference: P3304 | ISBN: 978-0945257813 | Type: Publication

Examines the frustrations and limitations of conventional Western academic research on social change and describes the struggle to fashion a new approach based on the principle that people have a universal right to participate in the production of knowledge that directly affects their lives.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

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Arte-Acción y Performance en los muchos Méxicos
Editor: Josefina Alcázar | Reference: P3263 | ISBN: 978-607-605-443-7 | Type: Publication

Outlins the performance map in Mexico, calling on artistsfrom various regions of the country to investigate and trace the history of this artistic expression.

In Spanish.

California centralisation chicano Débora Carnevali Ramírez Elvira Santamaria-Torres Fausto Gracia Fausto Méndez Luna Gabriela Leon Gustavo Álvarez Lugo Ivan Farias Josefina Alcázar Juan Ramón Lemus Karina Hodoyan Karla Paola Rebolledo Garcia Latin America Melissa García Aguirre Omar Góngora Guzmán performance art policy Raffaella Fontanot South America Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny Victor Martínez

Of Bridges & Borders: Vol. II
Editor: Sigismond de Vajay | Reference: P3136 | ISBN: 978-3037642634 | Type: Publication

Anthropologists, writers, philosophers, artists, sociologists and architects from around the world voice their views of the challenges facing society today. The content ranges from anecdotes to complex research projects. In Spanish and English.

Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).

Alejandro Grimson border CAPP Carlo Ratti Christian Boltanski city Diana Wechsler Elena Marchevska Equator freedom of speech Graciela Speranza Jenny Holzer Juan Herreros Kyong Park Latin America Lawrence Weiner Luca Simeone Marc Augé Marcos Giralt Torrente migration mobility Nashid Nabian nation-state nationality Olivier Zybok Restock Rethink Reflect 4 Ricardo Menéndez Salmón Rossana Reguillo RRR4 Sandro Mezzadra Saskia Sassen Simón Vélez Teddy Cruz territory urbanism Valentina Montero Peña Vanina Hofman

Displaced: Arte Contemporaneo de Colombia / Contemporary Art from Colombia
Editor: Fernando Escobar, Karen Mackinnon, Inez Elvia Rocha, Maria Clara Bernal | Reference: P3121 | ISBN: 9789586952835 | Type: Publication

In Spanish.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).

Alberto Baraya Andrés Burbano border CAPP Carolina Caycedo Delcy Morelos Elena Marchevska François Bucher Humberto Junca Johanna Calle José Alejandro Restrepo Juan Fernando Herrán Latin America María Elvira Escallón migration Miguel Angel Rojas Milena Bonilla Nadín Ospina Oscar Muñoz Restock Rethink Reflect 4 RRR4 Wilson Díaz

VERBO 2005-2015
Reference: P2965 | ISBN: 978-85-64324-07-7 | Type: Publication

An overview of the first 10 years of the VERBO festival, featuring texts by Brazilian and foreign authors.

In Portuguese and English; some text in Spanish.

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Monica Mayer: When in Doubt ... Ask - A Retrocollective Exhibit
Editor: Ekaterina Alvarez Romero | Reference: P2957 | ISBN: 978-8416282562 | Type: Publication

This is the first book on Mexican artist’s broad range of production, bringing together two- and three-dimensional works, records of actions, sound and film recordings and archival materials, enabling a reading of Mayer’s place in the construction of feminist practice in Mexico. In Spanish and English.

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