Untitled
Stefan Strocen, 1973
© Essex Collection
of Art from Latin America
News
Final Symposium at Tate
A final symposium marking the official end of the project will take place at Tate Modern in London on Wednesday 14th of December 2011. The four project researchers, Valerie Fraser, María Iñigo Clavo, Michael Asbury and Isobel Whitelegg will give extended presentations based on their individual research carried out during the project. The project's external advisors will act as respondents along with Edward Sullivan, Yayo Aznar and Rebecca Breen. The rest of the audience will be made up of current MA and PhD students from the University of Essex and the University of the Arts London. The event is by invite only.
Meeting Margins - ESCALA Exhibition
"Southern Press: Prints from Brazil, Paraguay and Chile" is now open at Colchester's new firstsite gallery and runs until January 22nd 2011. The exihibition is a collaboration between Meeting Margins and ESCALA (Essex Collection of Art from Latin America) and focuses on the works of thirteen printmakers, including Oswaldo Goeldi, Lívio Abramo, Antonio Henrique Amaral, Olga Blinder, Nemesio Antúnez and other key practitioners from the 1950s, 60s and 70s.
Read more about Southern Press
Concinnitas Publication of Conference Summaries
A series of essays based on the Meeting Margins 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
Meeting Margins Conference December 2010
The Meeting Margins Conference took place at the Univeristy of Essex on Saturday the 4th and Sunday the 5th of December 2010.
The public event provided an opportunity for the researchers, external advisors, and a variety of UK- and internationally-based speakers to present and reflect on recent research with a wider audience.
Read more about the Meeting Margins Conference
"Transnational Latin American Art" Takes Place
"Transnational Latin American Art: International Research Forum for Graduate Students and Emerging Scholars" took place at the University of Texas at Austin on the 6-8th of November 2009. The event, which was a collaboration between Meeting Margins and The Permanent Seminar of Latin American art at the University of Texas, attracted over 150 delgates including the 60 presenters and a team of internationally recognised scholars acting as panel chairs and discussants.
The event was very successful in providing an opportunity to understand the broad range of research currently being undertaken in the field and was an exciting and rare chance for partcipants to meet a great number of emerging and established scholars from around the world.
Read more about "Transnational Latin American Art" at the University of Texas at Austin.
"Transnational Latin American Art" Program Announced
Following careful consideration, the final program for "Transnational Latin American Art: International Research Forum for Graduate Students and Emerging Scholars" has now been decided and the applicants informed of the selection team's decisions.
News of the Forum, which takes place at the University of Texas at Austin between 6-8th November 2009, attracted over 100 applications from around North, Central and South America, the Carribean and Europe. The deadline for 500 word abstracts was the 5th of May 2009.
The event is a collaboration between Meeting Margins and the University of Texas at Austin and is intended to promote the research of PhD students and early-career academics.
Read more about the program and selected applicants
First Work in Progress Seminar Takes Place
The first Meeting Margins "Work in Progress Seminar" took place at the University of Essex on Thursday the 30th April 2009. The seminar, called "Mapping Connections" provided an oppotunity for the project researchers to give individual presentations about their current research to the invited audience.
