The second edition of the International Seminar in Art History and Feminism: From Discourse to Exhibition, organized by Chile's Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, will be held on October 15th and 16th.
This seminar is proposed as a yearly international gathering supported by the Administration Enhancement Program (PMG) on Gender Issues of the Library, Archives, and Museums Direction. On this occasion, a volume with the presentations at the 2012 event, the first International Seminar in Art History and Feminism: Narratives, Readings, Writings, Omissions, will also be presented.
This year, the seminar will feature the participation of the Spanish collective Cabello/Carceller, as well as the Basque curator/theorist Xabier Arakistain. The roster of Chilean presenters include artist Julia Antivilo, and academic and poet María Eugenia Brito; they will analyze, based on their own experience, the relationship between feminist discourse and its materialization in exhibitions.
At the same time, there will be readings of works selected through an open call, a new modality developed for this edition of the event with the goal of providing a wider audience for research and thinking in the field.
Today exhibitions are not considered solely a space for the display of "artworks" but also a space for the analysis and debate of "ideas", which is reinforced by the emergence of curators who connect a discourse through the exhibition proposal, expressing their investigations and ideological positions with regards to the art field and the history of art.
Within the space of feminism and, later, of gender studies, a series of key exhibitions fostered re-readings, new evaluations, and interrogations in the visual-arts field, threading art-historical and feminist reflections that gave a new structure to the exhibition landscape both a the level of museums and in large-scale international events.
In this context, it is important to note the way in which female artists have been able to generate instances for the exhibition of their own works on the basis of networks, the use of non-canonical spaces, self-reflection, and critical writing, with the intent of giving greater visibility to their proposals, which are often marginalized from traditional spaces, circulation systems, and discourses.
The seminar will be free, but interested participants must apply, through September 30th, at http://www.dibam.cl/formGoogle
More information and questions: seminariofeminismo2013@gmail.com