Curating at the edge : artists respond to the U.S./Mexico border / Kate Bonansinga ; foreword by Lucy R. Lippard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bonansinga, Kate, author.

Series:

William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere

The William & Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artists and museums--Mexican-American Border Region.

Artists and museums.

Art museum curators--Mexican-American Border Region.

Art museum curators.

Art museums and community--Mexican-American Border Region.

Art museums and community.

Art and society--Mexican-American Border Region--History--21st century.

Art and society.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 266 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2014.

Summary:

Located less than a mile from Juárez, the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts at the University of Texas at El Paso is a non-collecting institution that serves the Paso del Norte region. In Curating at the Edge, Kate Bonansinga brings to life her experiences as the Rubin's founding director, giving voice to a curatorial approach that reaches far beyond the limited scope of "border art" or Chicano art. Instead, Bonansinga captures the creative climate of 2004-2011, when contemporary art addressed broad notions of destruction and transformation, irony and subversion, gender and identity, and the impact of location on politics. The Rubin's location in the Chihuahuan desert on the U.S./Mexican border is meaningful and intriguing to many artists, and, consequently, Curating at the Edge describes the multiple artistic perspectives conveyed in the place-based exhibitions Bonansinga oversaw. Exciting mid-career artists featured in this collection of case studies include Margarita Cabrera, Liz Cohen, Marcos Ramírez ERRE, and many others. Recalling her experiences in vivid, first-person scenes, Bonansinga reveals the processes a contemporary art curator undertakes and the-challenges she faces by describing a few of the more than sixty exhibitions that she organized during her tenure at the Rubin. She also explores the artists' working methods and the relationship between their work and their personal and professional histories (some are Mexican citizens, some are U.S. citizens of Mexican descent, and some have ancestral ties to Europe). Timely and illuminating, Curating at the Edge sheds light on the work of the interlocutors who connect artists and their audiences. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Alejandro Almanza Pereda: Jast Give Me a Place to Stand, 2004 13

2 Marcos Ramírez ERRE: To Whom It May Concern, War Notes, 2005 29

3 Simparch: Hydromancy, 2007 49

4 Adrian Esparza: Unknitting: Challenging Textile Traditions, 2008 67

5 Nicola Lopez, Noah MacDonald, Julio César Morales, Leo Villareal, and Vargas Suarez Universal: Claiming Space: Mexican Americans in U.S. Cities, 2008 89

6 Liz Cohen: No Room for Baggage, 2008 109

7 Margarita Cabrera: To Flourish, 2010 123

8 Tania Candiani: Battleground, 2009 141

9 Tom Leader Studio: Snagged, 2009 161

10 Ivan Abreu and Marcela Armas: Against the Flow: Independence and Revolution, 2010 175

11 Enrique Jezik Lines of Division, 2011 195

12 Atherton | Keener: Light Lines, 2011 213.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780292752979

0292752970

9780292754430

0292754434

OCLC:

828193677