Lecture - Narco-art and the culture of violence in Mexican contemporary art

Please join us for the next EAHR Speaker Series: Narco-art and the culture of violence in Mexican contemporary art, a special presentation by Nuria Carton de Grammont that explores the emergence of a subculture of violence in Mexican contemporary art.

Since the presidential mandate of Felipe Calderón (2006-2012), the war against drug cartels became a political scheme, which generated a climate of extreme violence causing more than 80,000 deaths. Presently, violence is an integral part of a society tied to diverse armed groups who fight for territorial occupation.

Closely intertwined to collective memories of violence, contemporary Mexican art has become pictorially influenced by crime scenes, cadavers and blood. In turn, these culturally specific productions present a bloody recount of Mexican history.

Additional information

Where: room EV-3.760

When: Thursday October 25, 2012, from 6:00pm - 7:30 pm

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Narco-art and the culture of violence in Mexican contemporary art has been organized by Ethnocultural Art Histories Research (EAHR), a 100% student-driven work group that engages with issues of cultural representation in the visual arts in Canada.

EAHR's activities are made possible with the support of The Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art and the Department of Art History at Concordia University.