The Americas

Regina Vater’s Ecofeminist Rituals of Waste and Renewal, 1983–88

In recent years, the Brazilian artist Regina Vater (born 1943) has gained renewed attention for her contributions to Latin American and Latinx feminist art histories of performance. However, her artistic explorations of ecology and the environment are virtually unexamined. This essay considers these subjects in Vater’s work through an analysis of several site-specific, participatory events that together address ecological themes of waste and renewal.

Gillian Sneed

The Americas | Art and the Political: The 1960s and 1970s

Letícia Parente’s Video In (1975) in Context

Widely distributed in recent years and now in MoMA’s collection, the two-minute video depicts Parente entering a closet and hanging up her sweater without first removing it from her body.

Paulina Pardo Gaviria

The Americas | Art and the Political: The 1960s and 1970s

Having a Coke with Marisol and Frank O’Hara

This text brings together Marisol’s sculpture Love and Frank O’Hara’s poem “Having a Coke with You” to explore their shared investigations of the personal in a capitalistic landscape, queer eroticism, global Cold War politics, and stoppered versus flowing communication.

Delia Solomons

The Americas | Transnational Histories and Non-aligned Networks

Making Waves: A Conversation with Laura Anderson Barbata

In this interview, Mexican-born, Brooklyn-based artist Laura Anderson Barbata highlights the importance of reciprocity and shared knowledge in her community-based, trans-disciplinary practice.

Laura Anderson Barbata and Madeline Murphy Turner

The Americas | Contemporary Crisis and Dissent

Cumbre Aconcagua. Part III: La memoria del agua (The Memory of Water)

This conference series, organized by the Cisneros Institute, looks at the history of water management in the Americas through the interdisciplinary work of artists, theorists, historians, and local communities.

Camila Marambio, Marisol de la Cadena and Cecilia Vicuña

The Americas | Contemporary Crisis and Dissent

Cumbre Aconcagua. Part II: El Robo (Theft)

Camila Marambio, Denise Ferreira da Silva and Maria Thereza Alves

The Americas | Contemporary Crisis and Dissent

Cumbre Aconcagua. Part I: Digna Rabia and Moral Hazard

Camila Marambio, Carolina Caycedo and Ignacio Valero

The Americas | One Work, Many Voices

Claudio Perna: The Son of the Immigrant 

Beginning with the Autocurriculum, this essay examines Claudio Perna’s conceptual fixation on the fluid boundaries between documentation, artistic expression, and self-representation.

Silvia Benedetti

The Americas | One Work, Many Voices

The Right to Appear: Alejandro Paz Navas’s The Bodyguard (2002) and the Guatemalan Postwar Art Scene

Alejandro Paz Navas’s The Bodyguard is a testament to a generation of artists who mobilized conceptual performances in public spaces to respond to the socio-economic changes in postwar Guatemala.

Madeline Murphy Turner

The Americas

A New Materiality: Neri Oxman’s Craft for the Biological Age

The exhibition Neri Oxman: Material Ecology shows the architect’s practice at the intersection of nature and computation. Her dynamic approach, though rooted in the modernist tradition, brings together material science, digital fabrication technologies, and organic design.

Anna Burckhardt

The Americas | One Work, Many Voices

Forms of Care: Guadalupe Maravilla’s Disease Thrower #5 and Circle Serpent

The performative installation made by Salvadoran American artist Guadalupe Maravilla, recently acquired by The Museum of Modern Art, offers a ritual space both for disease and healing.

Rachel Remick and Simon Wu

The Americas | Contemporary Crisis and Dissent

Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo in Conversation with Thomas J. Lax

In this conversation the two discuss Pilar’s artistic formation; her use of family lore and fabulation in her interventions into the silences of the state archive; and her interests in science and digital technology.

Thomas J. Lax and Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo

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