Making Space, Making Place: Marking the Americas
Symposium
The seventh annual Symposium of Latin American Art 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.
Presented by The Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, Columbia University, and the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), Making Space, Making Place: Marking the Americas includes 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).
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.
All programming will take place in person at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1 East 78th Street. RSVP required.