The Center for Latin American Visual Studies (CLAVIS) and the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) are pleased to announce the third convening of the ISLAA Forum: Latin American and Latinx Art and Visual Culture Dissertation Workshop, to take place on April 4-6, 2024. This year we welcome Dária Jaremtchuk, Universidade de São Paulo), and Camilo Trumper, University of Buffalo (SUNY), as our invited scholars.
KEYNOTE TALKS
Thursday, April 4
3:30-PM, ART 1.102
Open to the public
Followed by reception
“Policies of Attraction: Intensified Artistic Approaches between the United States and Brazil”
Dária Jaremtchuk
Universidade de São Paulo
This lecture will analyze the policies of attraction implemented by sectors of the United States government in the Brazilian artistic and cultural environment during the 1960s and 1970s. The purposes of these strategies were explicit: to reverse – within Latin America and not just Brazil – the negative image of the United States, and to make the country a hegemonic reference in the artistic field. To achieve the expected results, exclusive projects and activities were launched, including personal and institutional exchanges, the organization of literary, artistic, and cultural events, the promotion of English language learning, book translations, theater festivals, and the circulation of cultural exhibitions and art shows. This presentation will discuss some cases focused on visual arts. In summary, this analysis aims to contribute to a better understanding of the relationship between culture and politics during the decades of the 1960s and 1970s.
Dária Jaremtchuk is an Associate Professor of Art History at the University of São Paulo. In 2019, she received the Fulbright Brazil Distinguished Chair at Emory University. Her current research primarily focuses on the artistic exchange between Brazil and the United States during the 1960s and 70s. In 2023, she published Políticas de atração: relações artístico-culturais entre Estados Unidos e Brasil nas décadas de 1960/1970 (UNESP/FAPESP). Additionally, she served as the editor of Arte e política: aproximações (Alameda Press) in 2010 and launched Anna Bella Geiger: Passagens Conceituais (EDUSP) in 2007. She is a Research Productivity Fellow at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and also one of the coordinators of the thematic project “Institutional geopolitics: art in dispute in international circulating exhibitions in Brazil (1948-1978)” funded by FAPESP.
“The Politics of Public Writing in Dictatorship”
Camilo Trumper
University at Buffalo (SUNY)
This presentation, drawn from a new book project, explores the politics of writing in dictatorship. It investigates the politics of writing and re-writing, of producing, circulating, and reading text in a political context defined by censorship, silence, erasure, and exile. It explores often-clandestine, often-unspectacular forms of political organizing and association, mapping the connection between distinct forms of dissent, in Chile and in exile, that were tied together by the political practice of writing, by the line of the pen. It ranges across distinct forms of writing, or inscription—prison writing, schoolhouse writing, street writing, and archival writing. In so doing, it proposes a history of dictatorship and dissent that speaks to contemporary forms of protest in Chile and Latin America.
Camilo Trumper is an Associate Professor of Latin American History and founding director of the Latin American Studies and Students Initiative at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). His first book, Ephemeral Histories: Public Art, Politics and the Struggle for the Street in Chile (University of California Press, 2016), was awarded the 2018 Latin American Studies Historia Reciente y Memoria Section Best Book Award, the 2017 Latin American Studies Southern Cone Studies Section Best Book Prize, the 2017 North England Council of Latin American Studies Marysa Navarro Best Book Prize, and received an Honorable Mention for the 2017 Southern Historical Association Latin American and Caribbean Section Murdo J. MacLeod Book Prize. His second book project, “Writing in Dictatorship: Politics, Exile, and Archives in Chile, 1973-1990,” explores the multiple practices of writing to offer new insight into the everyday experience of power and contest under Pinochet in Chile and abroad.
