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    A selection of recent essays and videos commissioned by the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA).

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    Writer in Residence

    Poetics of the Body and Language in CAYC’s Audiovisual Archives

    Emilia Casiva • Jun 3, 2025
    Writer in Residence

    Sociotechnical Impetus: CAYC’s Audiovisual Assemblages

    Renato Bermúdez Dini • Jun 3, 2025
    Writer in Residence

    Temporality and Technics in Margarita Paksa's Tiempo de descuento

    Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra • Jun 3, 2025
    Writer in Residence

    Transparency and Feminist Revision in Anna Bella Geiger’s Artist’s Books

    Maggie Borowitz • Apr 10, 2025
    Writer in Residence

    A Creative Form of Expansion: Non-Objectualism and Anna Bella Geiger’s Artist’s Notebooks (1974–77)

    Jorge Lopera • Apr 10, 2025
    From the Desk of. . .

    Two Women at the Japan Video Art Festival at CAYC, 1978

    aliwen • Dec 12, 2024
    Re: Collection

    A Universal Language and an Unrealized European Tour: Grupo de Artistas Modernos de la Argentina

    Laura Bohnenblust • Dec 5, 2024
    From the Desk of. . .

    Neofiguración and Dibujazo: Uruguayan Painting and Graphic Arts, 1960–80

    Gabriel Peluffo Linari • Nov 29, 2024
    From the Desk of. . .

    Desire, Mystery, Devotion: On Mariette Lydis’s Trajectory

    Georgina G. Gluzman • Nov 22, 2024
    From the Desk of. . .

    Montevideo’s Grupo 8 (1959–62): The Ephemeral Avant-Garde

    Gabriel Peluffo Linari • Nov 15, 2024
    From the Desk of. . .

    Informalist Painting in Uruguay: Its Origins and Processes (1957–65)

    Gabriel Peluffo Linari • Nov 1, 2024
    Re: Collection

    "Garments", "Knots" and "High Tide": Three Poems in Response to Jorge Eielson

    Wingston González • Jul 15, 2024
    Re: Collection

    Toward a Poetics of Multiplicity: On Juan Carlos Romero’s Experiments in Repetition

    Mariana Fernández • May 1, 2024
    Re: Collection

    A Dance of Bodies and Machines: Leopoldo Maler’s Crane Ballet

    Agustín Díez Fischer • Mar 27, 2024
    Writer in Residence

    An “Intermedia Revolution”: Audiovisual Experimentation at the Centro de Arte y Comunicación

    Benjamin Murphy • Mar 26, 2024
    From the Desk of. . .

    Time in Motion: An Approach to Gustavo Bruzzone’s More Than Four Hundred Hours of Filming Toward the End of the Century

    Agustina Battezzati • Feb 28, 2024
    Writer in Residence

    El Dibujazo: Drawing as Resistance in 1970s Uruguay

    Irene García • Feb 28, 2024
    Re: Collection

    In Plane Sight

    Amanda Schmitt • Feb 21, 2024
    Writer in Residence

    “El Dibujazo”: Approaching an Atmosphere

    Patricia Roig Canepa • Feb 14, 2024
    Writer in Residence

    Desire, Deferral, and the Failings of Filmic Representation—"Trans" (1982)

    Joseph Shaikewitz • Dec 14, 2023
    Writer in Residence

    "Trans" (1982): Queering the Temporality of the Archive

    Irene Rihuete-Varea • Dec 14, 2023
    Writer in Residence

    “Our School”: Testimonies from the Kasak-Madí Archive

    Francesca Ferrari • Nov 20, 2023
    Re: Collection

    Do Whatever You Want: Edgardo Giménez in Dialogue with Gonzalo Guerrero

    Gonzalo Guerrero • Oct 24, 2023
    Writer in Residence

    Artes Visuales: A Latin American Debate

    Abel González Fernández • Oct 11, 2023
    Re: Collection

    Living Cultural Landscapes

    manuel arturo abreu • Sep 18, 2023
    270 Film Series

    270.14—Ana Tiscornia: Cartografía del olvido

    Julio Grinblatt • Sep 15, 2023
    270 Film Series

    270.13—Muriel Hasbun: to tell your story in pieces, as it is

    Erina Duganne • Sep 14, 2023
    270 Film Series

    270.12—Luis Camnitzer: Arte, estado y no he estado

    Albertina Carri • Sep 13, 2023
    270 Film Series

    270.11—Rolando Peña: Sembrando el Petróleo

    K.ari.n Schneider • Sep 12, 2023
    270 Film Series

    270.10—Naomi Rincón Gallardo: Coyolxauhqui Imperative

    Magali Lara • Sep 11, 2023
    270 Film Series

    270.09—Mondongo: No me arrepiento de este amor

    Guillermo Iuso • Sep 10, 2023
    270 Film Series

    270.08—Marcelo Pombo: El silencio no existe

    Alberto Goldenstein • Sep 9, 2023
    270 Film Series

    270.07—Clemente Padín

    Alejandro Cesarco • Sep 8, 2023
    270 Film Series

    270.06—Ernesto Vila

    Alejandro Cesarco • Sep 7, 2023
    270 Film Series

    270.05—Eduardo Costa: Soy un cura del pueblo

    Claudia del Río • Sep 6, 2023
    270 Film Series

    270.04— Marcia Schvartz: Ojo

    Ana López • Sep 5, 2023
    270 Film Series

    270.03—Mónica Mayer: Doña Lilia

    Magali Lara • Sep 4, 2023
    270 Film Series

    270.02—Nicolás Guagnini: Self-Portrait with Cucumber / Autorretrato con pepino

    Julio Grinblatt • Sep 3, 2023
    270 Film Series

    270.01—Liliana Porter and Man with Axe: Fragments of a Conversation with Julio Grinblatt

    Julio Grinblatt • Sep 2, 2023
    Re: Collection

    Rayando el Archivo: Mónica Mayer’s "El Tendedero"

    Angelique Rosales Salgado • Aug 21, 2023
    Writer in Residence

    Cal: An Analysis of the Journal’s Plastic Arts Section

    Paola Peña Ospina • Jul 20, 2023
    Re: Collection

    Notes on Latin American Graphic Design, Artes Gráficas, Typography, and Printed Matter from the ISLAA Library and Archives

    Ramon Tejada • Jun 20, 2023
    From the Desk of. . .

    Informalism’s Last Curveball: Informal Painting and Its Exegesis between Argentina and Europe

    Claudia Grego March • May 21, 2023
    Re: Collection

    Same Sea (Rose Horse)

    Lara Mimosa Montes • Apr 24, 2023
    From the Desk of. . .

    People Are the Only Thing that Matters: Alberto Greco and the Traveling Cultural Exhibitions

    Mónica Freyre • Mar 13, 2023
    Re: Collection

    Between the Earth and the Divine

    Anna Burckhardt Pérez • Feb 13, 2023
    From the Desk of. . .

    Pedro Figari: Art Industrial Education in Uruguay (1900–20)

    Gabriel Peluffo Linari • Jan 16, 2023
    Re: Collection

    Load-Bearing Subjects: On Grupo Escombros’s "Teoría del arte"

    Alan Ruiz • Oct 10, 2022
    Re: Collection

    A short conversation about André Cadere

    David Lamelas • Oct 3, 2022
    Re: Collection

    Conversations with Magali Lara’s Interiors

    Elisa Wouk Almino • Sep 27, 2022
    Writer in Residence

    From East 78th Street to Segovia: A Morning with César Paternosto, August 2021

    Rebecca Yuste-Golob • Sep 23, 2022
    Re: Collection

    Reading the Register

    Lizania Cruz • Sep 15, 2022
    From the Desk of. . .

    María Freire: Her Work in the Context of Abstract-Geometric Art from Río de la Plata and Brazil with European References (1950–1980)

    Gabriel Peluffo Linari • Jul 22, 2022
    Re: Collection

    This Is Not a Map: Extraction and Supplement in Sol LeWitt and Claudio Perna

    Luis Pérez-Oramas • Jan 15, 2022
    Re: Collection

    The Contemplation of Writing

    Cecilia Pavón • Jan 4, 2022
    Writer in Residence

    Matters of Process and Techniques of Control: The Luis Fernando Benedit Papers, 1960–1978

    Christopher Williams-Wynn • Jan 3, 2022

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