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"Afternoons at the Institute" - Contesting Hybrid Notions within Brazilian Contemporary Art
The Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art is proud to be hosting its second event in a series of conversations entitled "Afternoons at the Institute".
Brazilian art is commonly described as possessing an inevitable hybrid character because of the country's multiple histories of settlement, colonisation and immigration. The consequence of this attributed hybridity is a problematic, albeit implicit, ambivalence in relation to canonical genealogies of art. By equating the ambivalence that hybridity purports with the notions of contamination and quarantine, it is possible to trace how the critical discourse that accompanies the art from that region has evolved. Over time, it has shifted from one that stresses identitarian strategies of definition to one that underlines distinction from the canon. If hybridity used to simply describe conditions of production marked by multiple influences, the term now carries an ethical and aesthetic value: it has become the signifier of authenticity.
A lecture by Dr. Michael Asbury, deputy director of the Research Centre for Transnational Art Identity, and Nation (TrAIN) at the University of the Arts, London, will be commented by Institute member Dr. Alice Ming Wai Jim. This second event in the series "Afternoons at the Institute" questions the identity of art that is located at the crossroads of tendencies and influences.
An internationally recognized specialist in modern and contemporary art in Brazil, Dr. Asbury wants to redefine notions of 'hybridity' and 'authenticity'.
Additional information
For more information, please contact the series coordinator, Jarislowsky Foundation Doctoral Fellow Samuel Gaudreau-Lalande or call (514) 848-2424, ext. 4713.
All "Afternoons at the Institute" conversations are held in: EV-3.719
The Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art (3rd floor)
Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Complex
1515 Ste-Catherine Street West. Metro Guy-Concordia.
Monday, November 11th, 4:00-5:00 pm
Conversations are free and open to the public.
Dedicated to studies in Canadian visual art, the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute is part of the global debate on the very question of national art histories. This event is co-sponsored by the Interuniversity Doctoral Program in Art History, jointly administered by Concordia University, Université de Montréal, Université du Québec à Montréal and Université Laval, with the kind collaboration of Drs Monia Abdallah and Dominic Hardy.