Symposium: “Dialogues in the Present Tense: Latino and Latin American Art through the Lens of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA”

The Getty Foundation and Getty Research Institute present a day-long conversation on the relationship among three categories of art: Chicana/o, U.S. Latino, and Latin American. Curators of four upcoming Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA exhibitions will discuss their projects and how they are connected to these categories and their related fields of inquiry. The curators will also serve as moderators for panel discussions that will explore the influential exhibitions, publications, and colloquia that have challenged the insularity of these fields. Panelists will address the contributions of curators, artists, art historians, and critics who have expanded the definitions of Latino, Latin American, Chicana/o art since the 1970s and propose curatorial and critical approaches for the future.

This event is open to the public. Admission is free; a ticket is required. To RSVP, please visit: http://www.getty.edu/foundation/initiatives/current/pst_lala/events.html

PROGRAM

8:30-9:00 a.m.                         Coffee and Registration

9:00-9:10 a.m.                         Welcome

9:10-10:40 a.m.                       Conversation  1

Moderators:
Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, co-curator (Independent art historian and curator) and Marcela Guerrero, curatorial fellow (Hammer Museum) of Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985, Hammer Museum.

Panelists:
Susana Torruella Leval, Director Emerita, El Museo del Barrio
Deborah Cullen, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University
Jennifer González, University of California, Santa Cruz

10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.             Conversation 2
Moderators: Chon Noriega (UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center) and Mari Carmen Ramírez (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston), co-curators of Home—So Different, So Appealing, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, LACMA, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Panelists:
Gerardo Mosquera, Independent Curator and Critic
José Falconi, Harvard University
Daniel Joseph Martinez, University of California, Irvine

12:15-1:30 p.m.                       Lunch (Getty Café, no-host)

1:45-3:15 p.m.                         Conversation 3
Moderators:
Rita Gonzalez (LACMA) and Pilar Tompkins Rivas (LACMA), co-curators of A Universal History of Infamy, LACMA.

Panelists:
Carolina Ponce de Léon, Ministry of Culture, Colombia
Lucía Sanromán, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
José Antonio Sánchez, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

3:20-5:00 p.m.                         Conversation 4
Moderator:
Rubén Ortiz-Torres (University of California, San Diego), co-curator of How to Read El Pato Pascual: Disney’s Latin America and Latin America’s Disney, MAK Center for Art and Architecture.

Panelists:
Carla Stellweg, School of Visual Arts
E. Carmen Ramos, Smithsonian American Art Museum