- :Trans borderCollaborations The Powerand Problematic

- of Bi National Art 

KerryDoyle RubinCenterforthe Visual Arts

UTEP.kadoyle@utep edu

LeonDe LaRosa Visual Arts ProgramUACJ

.ledelaro@uacjmx

The Disappeared 18- 11, 2009June September

 •Latin-American Art created amidst social, political and military unrest and abuse.

•The possibility of art as a tool for social change.

•Strategies to broaden the impact in the community, to encourage artistic responses to the border reality.

•Art in an exploration of personal and public forms of violence.

•Artists were not responding directly to the border in the existing work, but the growing border violence formed

a particular context for the work.

Battleground: Tania Candiani and Regina Jose Galindo

Tania Candiani Visiting Artist 2009January

 

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Battleground Opening Night Transnational Performance

 

 Documents on display as part of the exhibition January 22-May 2, 2009 in the Rubin Center Project Space

 

Fernando Traverso , Visiting Artist

2009May 

•Initial event for The Disappeared

•Art in order to “ not forget”

•Relevance in regional context.

Workshops on both sides of the border

 

El Paso

. CdJuárez

March inHonorofUACJ ProfessorManuel Arroyo 

DesCercos- 2009Feb Aug  

•Final event for The Disappeared.

•An entire community about to disappear.

•Education, technology and documentation as weapons of resistance.

Exhibition atGunGallery

- :Trans borderCollaborations The Powerand Problematic

- of Bi National Art 

Kerry Doyle Rubin Center for the Visual Arts

UTEPkadoyle@utep.edu

Leon De La RosaVisual Arts Program

UACJledelaro@uacj.mx