Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
Visiting Artists and Critics Talk
Thursday, May 3: 6:30pm
695 Park Avenue – North Building, 15th Floor
New York, NY 10065
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www.latinamericanartathunter.org
How could interacting with artworks help viewers learn more about their world? How could it even help them improve it? These were the utopian questions curators Pablo Helguera and Paola Santoscoy strove to answer at the 8th Mercosul Biennial in Porto Alegre, Brazil this past fall. Helguera and Santoscoy will discuss how they collaborated with artists to blend pedagogy and artistic production, offering audiences opportunities to participate in socially engaged art.
Pablo Helguera is a New York based artist, educator, and author. He explores history, pedagogy, sociolinguistics, ethnography, memory, and the absurd in work that takes many forms. Recently he performed The School of Panamerican Unrest, a nomadic think-tank on wheels, which he drove 20,000 miles, from Alaska to Argentina, to create one of the most extensive public art projects on record. Helguera is Director of Adult and Academic Programs at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Paola Santoscoy is a curator and critic of contemporary art based in Mexico City. She organized The Nature of Things for the Biennial of the Americas in Denver, is co-founder of the curatorial project 111 (one artist, one day, one night), and is currently the director of El Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City. In 2009, she earned an M.A. degree from the Visual and Critical Studies Program at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Visiting Artists and Critics program brings key figures from Latin America to Hunter College to address topics in contemporary art and scholarship through talks with students and the New York community. In addition to this forum, Cisneros Visiting Artists and Critics conduct studio visits and seminar discussions with Hunter M.F.A. and M.A. students during their residency.
For more information about the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Visiting Artists and Critics Program at Hunter College, please go to www.latinamericanartathunter.org.