Meeting Margins International Conference
Transnational Art in Latin America and Europe 1950-1978
University of Essex, Colchester Campus
4th-5th December 2010
Read the Meeting Margins Conference Dossier (in Portuguese)
The Meeting Margins International Conference: Transnational Art in Latin America and Europe 1950-1978 took place at the University of Essex on Saturday the 4th and Sunday the 5th of December 2010.
The two day event was open to the public and was convened by Professor Valerie Fraser and Doctor María Iñigo Clavo of the School of Philosophy and Art History at the University of Essex, and Doctor Michael Asbury and Doctor Isobel Whitelegg of TrAIN, the Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation at the University of the Arts London.
The conference was part of Meeting Margins: Transnational Art in Latin America and Europe 1950-1978, a 3-year research project based at the University of Essex and the University of the Arts London, and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the British Academy, the UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Speakers included Suzana Vaz (UAL/TrAIN), German Alfonso Adaid (UAL/TrAIN), Sergio Martins (University College London), Aquiles Pantaleão (UAL/London College of Communication), Fernando Davis (Universidad Nacional de La Plata), Fernanda Nogueira (Researcher, translator and literary critic), Zanna Gilbert (Tate/University of Essex), Olga Fernandez (Royal College of Art/Universidad Autnoma de Madrid/Universidad Nebrija, Madrid) Eduardo Grüner (Universidad de Buenos Aires), Jaime Vindel (Universidad de León), Miguel López (Art Historian and Independent Curator), and Oriana Baddeley (UAL/TrAIN), as well as contributions from Pablo La Fuente (Afterall), the convenors and the project's external advisors, including Taína Caragol, Guy Brett, Dawn Ades and Joanne Harwood.
A series of essays based on the conference has been published as a special dossier in Concinnitas - Revista Do Instituto De Artes Da UERJ (Ano 12 - Vol.1 - No.18 - Junho 2011, pp6-65). The essays are written by the project researchers, Valerie Fraser, María Iñigo Clavo, Michael Asbury and Isobel Whitelegg, who convened and chaired the three panels on which they are based. The essays appear in Portuguese and English in a printed version and in Portuguese in an electronic version of the journal on the Concinnitas webiste.
Read the Meeting Margins Conference Dossier (in Portuguese)
Reflexões sobre Meeting Margins, Valerie Fraser
Intercâmbios Transnacionais e a Popularização do Pensamento Científico, Michael Asbury
Compartilhando Imaginários sobre Maio de 68, María Iñigo Clavo & Valerie Fraser
Tucumán Arde, For Example, Isobel Whitelegg
