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Listen "Online Reading Session #3 "Blueprint Circuits: Conceptual Art and Politics in Latin America". Special guest: Luis Camnitzer"
Episode Synopsis
In this session, we discussed two essays by Mari Carmen Ramírez: "Blueprint Circuits: Conceptual Art and Politics in Latin America" and "Tactics for Thriving on Adversity: Conceptualism in Latin America".
Our special guest was Uruguayan artist Luis Camnitzer, who commented Ramírez' texts, spoke about his own theory on Latin American conceptualism and reflected, amongst other topics, on art, pedagogy, the role of the museums, and art as a tool for social transformation.
LUIS CAMNITZER is a Uruguayan artist, who lives in the United States since 1964. He is a Professor Emeritus of Art at the State University of New York, College at Old Westbury. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for printmaking in 1961 and for visual arts in 1982. In 2011, he was awarded the Frank Jewitt Mather Award of the College Art Association. In 2012, he received the Skowhegan Medal and the USA Ford Fellow award. He represented Uruguay at the Venice Biennial (1988), and was one of the participating artists during of the Whitney Biennale (2000) and documenta 11 (2002). In 2007, Camnitzer was appointed Pedagogical Curator of the 6thBienal de Mercosur. In 2018-19 the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid did a retrospective exhibition of his oeuvre. His work is in the collections of over forty museums. He is the author of New Art of Cuba, University of Texas Press, 1994/2004; Arte y Enseñanza: La ética del poder, Casa de América, Madrid, 2000, Conceptualism in Latin American Art: Didactics of Liberation, University of Texas Press, 2007, On Art, Artists, Latin America and Other Utopias, University of Texas Press, 2010, and of the recently published anthology One Number Is Worth One Word, 2020.
Introduction, moderation and audio editing: Katerina Valdivia Bruch
We would like to thank the participants for their questions and Luis Camnitzer for being with us.
The online reading session took place on 30 July 2020.
Our special guest was Uruguayan artist Luis Camnitzer, who commented Ramírez' texts, spoke about his own theory on Latin American conceptualism and reflected, amongst other topics, on art, pedagogy, the role of the museums, and art as a tool for social transformation.
LUIS CAMNITZER is a Uruguayan artist, who lives in the United States since 1964. He is a Professor Emeritus of Art at the State University of New York, College at Old Westbury. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for printmaking in 1961 and for visual arts in 1982. In 2011, he was awarded the Frank Jewitt Mather Award of the College Art Association. In 2012, he received the Skowhegan Medal and the USA Ford Fellow award. He represented Uruguay at the Venice Biennial (1988), and was one of the participating artists during of the Whitney Biennale (2000) and documenta 11 (2002). In 2007, Camnitzer was appointed Pedagogical Curator of the 6thBienal de Mercosur. In 2018-19 the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid did a retrospective exhibition of his oeuvre. His work is in the collections of over forty museums. He is the author of New Art of Cuba, University of Texas Press, 1994/2004; Arte y Enseñanza: La ética del poder, Casa de América, Madrid, 2000, Conceptualism in Latin American Art: Didactics of Liberation, University of Texas Press, 2007, On Art, Artists, Latin America and Other Utopias, University of Texas Press, 2010, and of the recently published anthology One Number Is Worth One Word, 2020.
Introduction, moderation and audio editing: Katerina Valdivia Bruch
We would like to thank the participants for their questions and Luis Camnitzer for being with us.
The online reading session took place on 30 July 2020.
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