Spiraling Time
Intermedial Conversations in Latin American Arts
March 15 and 16, 2013
Watch Leda Martins's talk here!
Watch Cecilia Vicuña's talk here!
On March 15 and 16, 2013, the Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley will present Spiraling Time: Intermedial Conversations in Latin American Arts, part of its yearlong Time Zones series examining time-based arts in an international context. The symposium brings together artists who rang across a varity of media, including film-maker Leandro Katz, writer Nuno Ramos, intermedia artist, Cecilia Vicuna, and activist artist Tania Bruguera. Meanwhile, scholars and curators from a variety of disciplines and countries investigatedhow various “time-based” art practices are pressed into service in a Latin American context. Participants consider how different art forms address a political history of “disappearance” and wider questions of history, memory, and temporality. The event includes interactive conversations amongst participants (and audience members), punctuated by three keynote addresses on the relation between visual art and performing art histories.