Karen Mary Davalos
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781479877966
- eISBN:
- 9781479825165
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479877966.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This chapter explores the errata exhibition, a show that counters a mainstream presentation of art. With the appearance of the errata exhibition in 1975, Chicana feminist artists leveraged ...
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This chapter explores the errata exhibition, a show that counters a mainstream presentation of art. With the appearance of the errata exhibition in 1975, Chicana feminist artists leveraged institutional critique against both mainstream arts institutions and community-based practices that ignored or narrowly interpreted their work. These artists, including Judy Baca, Barbara Carrasco, and Judithe Hernández, introduced an alternative analysis of Chicana/o art, illuminating the complexity, multiplicity, and generative qualities of their cultural production. The chapter argues that errata exhibitions are undocumented sites of critical borderlands discourse with which art historians, curators, and critics must engage to remain relevant.Less
This chapter explores the errata exhibition, a show that counters a mainstream presentation of art. With the appearance of the errata exhibition in 1975, Chicana feminist artists leveraged institutional critique against both mainstream arts institutions and community-based practices that ignored or narrowly interpreted their work. These artists, including Judy Baca, Barbara Carrasco, and Judithe Hernández, introduced an alternative analysis of Chicana/o art, illuminating the complexity, multiplicity, and generative qualities of their cultural production. The chapter argues that errata exhibitions are undocumented sites of critical borderlands discourse with which art historians, curators, and critics must engage to remain relevant.
Karen Mary Davalos
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781479877966
- eISBN:
- 9781479825165
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479877966.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This chapter introduces how the vernacular concept of the remix exposes and challenges conventions of Chicana/o art discourse that erase the variety of styles, methods, and approaches employed by ...
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This chapter introduces how the vernacular concept of the remix exposes and challenges conventions of Chicana/o art discourse that erase the variety of styles, methods, and approaches employed by artists since the height of the Chicano movement. Using the work of artist Sandra de la Loza as a methodology for remixing, the chapter interrogates the dichotomous lens and categories for art and artists that have functioned to render Chicana/o art invisible or improbable. It proposes that the decolonial methods of Anzaldúan theory, such as borderlands and mestiza consciousness, best illuminate the complexity of Chicana/o art and artists in Los Angeles, an ideal site for a capacious analysis of Chicana/o artists, exhibitions, collectors, curators, and institutions.Less
This chapter introduces how the vernacular concept of the remix exposes and challenges conventions of Chicana/o art discourse that erase the variety of styles, methods, and approaches employed by artists since the height of the Chicano movement. Using the work of artist Sandra de la Loza as a methodology for remixing, the chapter interrogates the dichotomous lens and categories for art and artists that have functioned to render Chicana/o art invisible or improbable. It proposes that the decolonial methods of Anzaldúan theory, such as borderlands and mestiza consciousness, best illuminate the complexity of Chicana/o art and artists in Los Angeles, an ideal site for a capacious analysis of Chicana/o artists, exhibitions, collectors, curators, and institutions.
