Event Date: April 12-13, 2024
About the Symposium
The Eighth Annual Symposium of Latin American Art, hosted by graduate students from Columbia University, The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), and the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University (NYU), will take place at ISLAA from April 12 to 13, 2024.
Theme: “A Matter of Time: Chronodissidence in the Americas”
This symposium invites proposals from artists, activists, graduate students, and emerging scholars exploring flexible, nonlinear, and “errant” temporalities. We welcome scholarly and artistic considerations of time as matter, method, and approach, inspired by Miguel A. López’s concept of “chronodissidence.” This theme encourages critical responses to how art and visual culture challenge time’s encoding of racialized, colonial, and gendered logics.
Topics of Interest
- Indigenous temporalities and cosmovisions
- Time, vertigo, and memory in the Black Atlantic
- Temporal geographies, including transatlantic and Pacific interventions
- Invocations of time in religious, spiritual, and embodied practices
- Queer temporalities, temporal drag, and futurity
- Time-based practices, including experimental film, performance, dance, and music
- Looping, cyclicality, spirals, and repetition
- Discontinuity, delay, and anachronism
Call for Papers
To apply, submit an abstract of up to 300 words and a short CV to latamartsymposium@gmail.com by Sunday, December 20, 2023. Please include your current institutional affiliation, travel origin, and the languages you speak. Applicants will be notified of acceptance by early February. Presentations will be limited to 20 minutes and followed by a panel discussion with an invited scholar.
Language and Participation
Presentations will be accepted in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Proposals in other languages will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Symposium Organizers
The event is organized by graduate students from Columbia University, CUNY, and NYU, with faculty advisors from each institution. For further information or questions, please contact latamartsymposium@gmail.com.
