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Contrabienal Artl s Bulletin Manuscript Contrabienal Latin American Art Politics and Identity in New York - Aimé Iglesias Lukin Follow this and additional works at http docs lib purdue edu artlas Part of the Contemporary Art Commons Latin American Languag

Artl s Bulletin Manuscript Contrabienal Latin American Art Politics and Identity in New York - Aimé Iglesias Lukin Follow this and additional works at http docs lib purdue edu artlas Part of the Contemporary Art Commons Latin American Languages and Societies Commons and the Theory and Criticism Commons This document has been made available through Purdue e-Pubs a service of the Purdue University Libraries Please contact epubs purdue edu for additional information CHighways of the South Contrabienal Latin American Art Politics and Identity in New York - Aimé Iglesias Lukin Rutgers University Abstract This article focuses on a community of Latin American artists living in New York City and the in uence of regionalism and politics in their identi ?cation as a group taking up the case of the Contrabienal an art book published in as a call to boycott the XI São Paulo Biennial in protest of censorship and torture in dictatorial Brazil The book was aesthetically heterogeneous including artists from di ?erent generations and movements Nonetheless its organizers were all part of the strong shift towards conceptualism then taking place In light of the ongoing revision of the canons of Latin American modern and contemporary art this article argues that Contrabienal is a key instance of intersection between the priorities of conceptualism and political identi ?cation for the expatriate community in New York at this time Résumé Cet article se focalise sur une communauté latino-américaine d'artistes résidents à New York et sur l'in uence du régionalisme et de la politique dans leur identi ?cation comme groupe Il part du cas de Contrabienal un livre d'art publié en pour appeler au boycott de la XIXème Biennale de São Paulo Il s'agissait alors de dénoncer la censure et la torture perpétrées par le régime dictatorial du Brésil D'une esthétique éclectique le livre comprenait des artistes de di ?érentes générations Mais les plasticiens qui organisèrent sa publication s'inscrivaient tous dans l'important mouvement de transition vers le Conceptualisme qui se déroulait à l'époque Considérant la révision dont le canon du Conceptualisme latino-américain fait aujourd'hui l'objet on analyse ici Contrabienal en tenant compte d'intrications décisives entre questions d ? identité l'art et la politique Aimé Iglesias Lukin is currently a Ph D Candidate at Rutgers University She is focusing in Latin American art from the s and s A longer version of this paper was presented as her M A Thesis for the Institute of Fine Arts NYU She conducted her undergraduate studies at Universidad de Buenos Aires She has worked at Fundación Proa and Henrique Faria Fine Art ARTL S BULLETIN Vol Issue Fall CLukin ?? Contrabienal ? ??It was in New York that I discovered that I was Latin American ? -César Paternosto The simple red notebook can still be found in a few artists ? archives and fortunate libraries here and there Fig Titled Contrabienal this artist book was published in as a call to boycott the Eleventh São Paulo Biennial in condemnation of censorship and torture in dictatorial Brazil