Meeting Margins International Conference
Transnational Art in Latin America and Europe 1950-1978
Conference Programme
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Day 1: Saturday 4th December
Registration and Coffee
LTB Foyer (9.45-10.15am)
Welcome and Introdutcion by
Professor Valerie Fraser
LTB 8, (10.15-10.30am)
Panel 1: The Popularisation of Scientific Thought and its Impact on Artistic Exchanges between Latin America and Europe
LTB 8, (10.30am-1.00pm)
Chair: Michael Asbury
Respondent: Guy Brett
Suzana Vaz
Nise da Silveira and Carl Gustav Jung: Don't fear the unconscious. Creative process: progression of the symbol towards an archaic knowledge.
Sergio Martins
Gestalt and phenomenology: perception paradigms in the Brazilian constructive avant-garde.
German Alfonso Adaid
Translation, ideology and nationalism: Post-war readings of Norbert Wiener's Cybernetics
Aquiles Pantaleão
Avant-Garde music, between science, identitarian politics and popular culture.
1.00-2.00: Break
Panel 2: for example, Tucumán Arde
LTB 8, (2.00-6.00pm)
Chair: Isobel Whitelegg
Respondent: Pablo La Fuente
Jaime Vindel
Struggling for Memory - The Case of Tucumán Arde
2.40: Film Screening
Olga Fernandez
Tucumá Arde - Ceci N'est Pas une Biennale
3.20: Discussion (Pablo La Fuente)
3.40: Break
Zanna Gilbert
Mail Art's Expanded Exhibitions - Flux, Exposure and Multispatial Display
Fernando Davis
La Poesía Fuera de Sí - Poetic and Politics Strategies of the "New Poetry" Networks (1966-1972)
Fernanda Nogueira
The Emancipatory Program of Poema/Processo in 60s and 70s Brazil
Day 2: Sunday 5th December
Registration and Coffee
LTB Foyer (9.30-10.00am)
Panel 3: Shared Imaginaries - Art and Political Activism in Latin America and Europe 1950-1978
LTB 8, (10.00-1.00pm), Sunday 5th December
Panel Chair: Valerie Fraser and María Iñigo Clavo
Respondent: Taína Caragol
Miguel A. López
Social Shifts and Political Dematerializations Juan Acha and the "Revolutionary Awakening" in the late 60s
Jaime Vindel
Forgetting the 60s: Art, revolution and political consensus.
Eduardo Grüner
European Intellectuals' Fascination with the Third World in the 1960s - The Cases of Sartre and Pasolini
Oriana Baddeley
A People United - Latin America and the Visualising of the Political in 1970s Britain
1.00-2.00pm: Break
Session 4: Conclusion and Discussion:
LTB 8, (2.00-4.00pm), Sunday 5th December
