Form and Feeling—The Making of Concretism
Monday, February 8, 10:00am to 5:00pm
The Bronx Museum
1040 Grand Concourse
718-681-6000
Bronx
The conference Form and Feeling: The Making of Concretism is the culmination of a research project led by Antonio Sergio Bessa, Director of Curatorial and Education Programs at the Bronx Museum, in collaboration with Julieta Gonzalez, Chief Curator at Fundación Jumex, in Mexico City. It will bring together new scholarship that engages critically in a discussion of the legacy of Concrete art and the genealogy of experiential art practices of the 1960s and 1970s in Brazil. The investigations presented in the conference will further contribute to the research informing the exhibition Form and Feeling: The Making of Concretism, scheduled to open at the Bronx Museum in the spring of 2018.
This conference will be live-streamed.
The premise for both the conference and exhibition departs from a remarkable yet highly understudied workshop that took place in the late 1940s at a psychiatric hospital in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, when artists Almir Mavignier, Ivan Serpa and Abraham Palatnik sought to engage the mentally ill through the visual arts under the guidance of Dr. Nise da Silveira and art critic Mario Pedrosa. Building on this episode, Form and Feeling will explore the sensorial, experience-based, and participatory practices developed throughout the 1950s by concretist artists in Brazil.
The conference will consist of four sessions featuring a group of distinguished scholars in the area. We are pleased to have as confirmed speakers: Michael Asbury (University of the Arts, London); Irene Small (Princeton University); Simone Homem de Mello (poet, scholar, São Paulo); José Lira (School of Architecture and Urbanism, São Paulo University); Adele Nelson (Tyler School of Art, Temple University); Frederico Coelho (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro); Eduardo Jorge de Oliveira (University of Campinas); Claudia Calirman (John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY); Rachel Imanishi (University of Brasilia); Luisa Valle (CUNY Graduate Center, Ph.D. candidate);Martin Mäntele (Hochshule für gestaltung, Ulm); Jay Levinson (The Museum of Modern Art).
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- B-Side: Renee Neufville - 02/04/2016