Making Space, Making Place: Marking the Americas

The Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, Columbia University in the City of New York, and the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) are pleased to announce the Seventh Annual Symposium of Latin American Art “Making Space, Making Place: Marking the Americas.” The symposium will be held on March 30-31, 2023.

Keynote lectures by Dr. Adriana Zavala, Andrew W. Mellon Professor, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery, and Associate Professor, History of Art, Studies in Race, Colonialism and Diaspora, Tufts University and Dr. Delia Cosentino, Associate Professor, History of Art & Architecture, DePaul University. Zavala and Cosentino are the co-authors of the forthcoming publication, Resurrecting Tenochtitlan: Imagining the Aztec Capital in Modern Mexico City (University of Texas Press).

The Symposium considers how marking practices interact with place and space-making strategies broadly construed—maps, cartographic renditions of place, earth and land art, urban planning, architecture and landscape, and more. By prioritizing space, place, and geography, the Symposium invites engagement with and critique of how marking practices have shaped our understanding of the Americas.

This event was advised by Dr. Edward J. Sullivan, Helen Gould Sheppard Professor in the History of Art at the Institute of Fine Arts; Dr. Lisa Trever, Lisa and Bernard Selz Associate Professor in Pre-Columbian Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University; Dr. Jerónimo Duarte-Riascos, Assistant Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures; and Dr. Alexander Alberro, Virginia Bloedel Wright Professor of Art History at Barnard College and Columbia University. The Symposium is organized by current  M.A. student Tatiana Marcel, Ph.D. student Corey Loftus, and Ph.D. candidates Eric Mazariegos and Rebecca Yuste.

This Symposium is presented by the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, the Institute for Latin American Studies, and the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University.

All programming will take place in person at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University: 1 East 78th Street. 

Interested in joining the conversation? Please RSVP here. 

Schedule

Thursday | March 30, 2023

2pm– Opening Remarks and Welcome by Dr. Christine Poggi, Judy and Michael Steinhardt Director and Professor of Fine Arts, the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; Lucy Hunter, Managing Director, the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA); Dr. Edward Sullivan, Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the History of Art, the Institute of Fine Arts and the College of Arts and Sciences, New York University | Lecture Hall

2:30pm-4pm– Panel 1 Marking Places, Discussant: Dr. Lisa Trever, Lisa and Bernard Selz Associate Professor of Pre-Columbian Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University | Lecture Hall

• Clara Maria Apostolatos, MA Student, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

“Dreamworks of Utopia: Paolo Gasparini’s Karakarakas”

• Joshua L. Gomez-Ortega (he/they), Ph.D. Student, University of Illinois Chicago (UIC)

“Mapping Pulquerías: Subversive Spaces and Corruptive Places in the Visual Culture of New Spain”

• Jerónimo Reyes-Retana (he/him), Ph.D. Student, University of Colorado Boulder

“Playa Bagdad / SpaceX: transboundary noise, the colonial voids of infrastructure, and counter-archiving as a place-making practice”

4:15pm-5:45pm– Panel 2 Performance, Discussant: Dr. Francisco Quinteiro Pires, Postdoctoral Fellow, New York University | Lecture Hall

• Emilia Raggi Lucio, Ph.D. Student, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 

“Flores, paisaje y música, una propuesta cartográfica basada en canciones náhuatl/Flowers, landscape and music, a cartographic proposal based on Nahua chants”

• Daniela Seixas (she/her) Assistant Professor, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro and Andressa Lacerda (she/her), Ph.D. Student, Universidade Federal Fluminense and Assistant Professor, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro 

 “Cartografias da fala / Cartografias do samba: mapas subjetivos”

• Amanda Macedo Macedo (she/her), Ph.D. Student, Brown University

“Brown Geographies and Disruptive Mythologies”

6pm-7pm– Opening Reception | Great Hall 

Friday | March 31, 2023

10:30am-12pm– Panel 3 History and Progress, Discussant: Dr. Brian Bentley, Director, Alexander Gray Associates | Lecture Hall

• Dr. Claudia Garay Molina (she/her), Researcher and Professor, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 

“‘A rumbo y tanteada’: Manuel Toussaint, Justino Fernández y el mapeo del patrimonio artístico en México (1927-1937)”

• Maria Alejandra Linares Trelles (she/her), Adjunct Professor, The New School

“Antonio Raimondi’s Cartographies for Progress: Envisioning Peru as a Productive Landscape”

• Janaína Nagata Otoch (she/her), Ph.D. candidate, Universidade de São Paulo

“Vestígios de uma geografia simbólica: Vicente do Rego Monteiro e a memória de Hans Staden”

[12pm-1:15pm– Break]

1:30pm-2:45pm– Panel 4 Museums, Discussant: Dr. Irene Small, Associate Professor of Art & Archaeology, Co-Director, Program in Media & Modernity, Princeton University | Lecture Hall

• Dr. Caroline Alciones de Oliveira Leite (she/her), Ph.D., Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

“Para Onde Apontam As Estrelas: Cruzeiro Do Sul (1969-1970) de Cildo Meireles”  

• Chasitie Brown (she/her), Ph.D. Candidate, University of Texas at Austin

“Diasporic Palimpsests: Cuban Artist Alexis Esquivel in Spain”

3pm-5pm– Keynote Programming followed by a moderated discussion with Dr. Alexander Alberro, Virginia Wright Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at Barnard College and Columbia University | Lecture Hall

Dr. Delia Cosentino, Associate Professor, History of Art & Architecture, DePaul University

Dr. Adriana Zavala, Andrew W. Mellon Professor, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery, and Associate Professor, History of Art, Studies in Race, Colonialism and Diaspora, Tufts University

5pm– Closing Remarks from the Symposium Organizers: Tatiana Marcel, MA Student, the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; Corey Loftus, Ph.D. Student, the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; Rebecca Yuste, Ph.D. Candidate, Columbia University; Eric Mazariegos, Ph.D. Candidate, Columbia University

Click here to see our panelists’ bios. 

Covid19 Protocol: Please note that upon your arrival to the IFA you will be asked to present an ID and Covid Vaccination Proof, including one booster shot. 

For further information or with any questions, please contact 2023latinamericansymposium@gmail.com.