Contemporary Cultural Practices in Latin

This course proposes to make a theoretical reYlection on Latin American literature, art, video, and cinema in the present. Starting from a diagnosis of the new scene, we are going to study some alternative forms. We will start with reading theoretical texts in the four proposed topics: Archive, Gender, Nature, and Intermediality.

The study of these works will also allow us to understand the dynamics between the different media and how artists conceive their practice in the midst of contemporary conditions. We are going to explore in these works the relationships between imagining, documenting, creating communities, intervening in the social field, and discussing global issues that often, from a precise location, involve planetary issues.

We will study works by Cristina Rivera Garza, Tamara Kamenszain, Ariana Harwicz, Fernanda Trías, Daniela Catrileo, Verónica Gerber-Biceci, among others. We will discuss the constellation of problems around aesthetics, mediality, exhibition, politics, materiality, and immateriality in art and literature, mimesis and institutions, artists and intellectuals.