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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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The Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) advances the study and visibility of Latin American art through exhibitions, research, and education. Our gallery is free and open to the public Tuesday through Saturday, from 12 to 6 PM. We are closed on Sundays and Mondays. For private appointments, group visits, or research inquiries, please contact us at info@islaa.org. We look forward to welcoming you.

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