Tuesday, November 30, 2010

CARLOS MOTTA 'WHEN, IF EVER, DOES ONE DRAW A LINE UNDER THE HORRORS OF HISTORY IN THE INTEREST OF TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION?'


Carlos Motta, 'When, if ever, does one draw a line under the horrors of history in the interest of truth and reconciliation?'
Portfolio, screenprint, 30.75" x 22.5", edition of 10, 2009


China/Tibet


Cuba


North/South Korea


Myanmar


Palestine


Sudan


South America Re-Imagined


CARLOS MOTTA
When, if ever, does one draw a line under the horrors of history in the interest of truth and reconciliation? (2009), is a timeline of the recent political history of ten countries in conflict.

This portfolio of 10 screen prints made while in residency at the Lower East Side Printshop (NY) depict the outline of the geographical map of 10 countries, which are going through serious political conflicts that have seemed irreconcilable.

A reader that presents a very detailed chronology of the political history of each country accompanies the prints. The work advocates for the construction of a space of memory and remembrance in order to think again about the horrors of history.
Download the reader here: http://www.carlosmotta.com/whenif.html

The countries are: Colombia, Cuba, Iraq, North and South Korea, Myanmar, Palestine, Sudan, Tibet (China), Zimbabwe and a (utopian) reconfiguration of the map of Central and South America to reflect the wish of continental political and cultural unity.

Printed with the assistance of a Special Editions Residency Fellowship at the Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY

www.carlosmotta.com

Global Warming, Political Science, and Apocalypse Not Now

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Roanoke Times, 11-29-10, Pg 10: Debating climate change in the Roanoke Times blog.
What a refreshing concept; a debate about climate change. Apparently there now are OK real people who are skeptics. Unfortunately the debate is among ordinary folks and not between the state-of-the-art skeptics vs. alarmists. The alarmists have steadfastly refused open and fair debate in any forum, any time or any place. They wear a mantra of “consensus” as their excuse for politically convenient predetermined conclusions and hide from direct one-on-one professional debate.
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Pg 6: Delegates will strive for progress on climate deal to curb climate change.
Perhaps it’s difficult to define a “deal” that will address the natural variations in the earth’s natural processes including: climate change, temperature variations, el ninos and la ninas, hurricanes, rising and falling tides, and rising and setting sunsets. To say nothing about those darn shifting, drifting and heaving tectonic plates. Apparently we'll have a treaty to contain them next year.
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Pg 10: Editorial: Climate change debunker debunked.
A focused personal attack upon a global warming skeptic professor with lots of accusations presented as proven facts. On second read: the Professor’s facts aren’t questioned – just his sources and credits. What a change from the editorial approach to the ClimateGate, GlacierGate, OzoneGate, BinLadenGate, AfricaGate, DutchGate, IndiaGate scandals which were immediately shrugged off as much to do about little or nothing and quickly swept under the consensus-rug.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/02/obama-climategates-and-snow-jobs.html
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For example: not found in the RT was any mention of distinguished Professor Hal Lewis’ Letter: “My Resignation From The American Physical Society”. Lewis’ resignation was a significant scientific community event acknowledged by both skeptics and alarmists but alas not by the RT Editors who diligently carry the Gore-Candle as their view of news.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/10/distinguished-scientist-hal-lewis.html
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Also not found in the RT is an Editorial explaining where the apocalyptic hurricanes are that were forecast for this year by the alarmist Apocalypse-Now Goreites!
The following is offered for their enlightenment:
http://www.wtok.com/home/headlines/US_Escapes_Major_Hurricanes_in_2010__110996004.html

U.S. Escapes Major Hurricanes in 2010 (none hit US mainland again!)
A busy Atlantic hurricane season ends Tuesday. The U.S. has been spared any major storms for a fifth straight year. Posted: 3:26 PM Nov 29, 2010; Reporter: The Associated Press; Hurricane Wilma in 2005 was the last major hurricane of Category 3 or stronger to hit the U.S. The U.S. has never before gone more than five consecutive years without a major hurricane.
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(The alarmists and the RT Editors will inform us that the next one to hit will be caused by carbon-driven climate change and it's your fault!)
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For an excellent source of Global Warming and Climate Change Information:
Fourth International Conference on Climate Change
http://www.heartland.org/events/2010Chicago/PDFs/ConferenceProgram.pdf
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Some Prior Blog Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/10/global-warming-alarmists-employ.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/07/hype-hot-hide-cold.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/07/science-and-ideology.html
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Jay Cutler. Undisputed

Jay Cutler. Undisputed

Movies : Sports : DVD Full : English
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-All bonuses
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'CULTURAL DIPLOMACY: AN ART WE NEGLECT' AN EXHIBITION BY ALESSANDRO BALTEO YAZBEK IN COLLABORATION WITH MEDIA FARZIN



Architect Carlos Raúl Villanueva in collaboration with Alexander Calder, Aula Magna auditorium, Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas, 1954
C-print digital reproduction from a faded 1954 Kodachrome by Paolo Gasparini


R.S.V.P, 1939
C-print digital reproduction (framed); Time magazine cover May 22, 1939 (framed), vinyl lettering on wall, wall label with narrative text




R.S.V.P, 1939
From the series Cultural Diplomacy: An Art We Neglect, 2007-2009
Joseph Blumenthal and Frances Collins
Mock invitation to the 10th Anniversary Gala at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1939
Seven thousand guests received formal invitations to the inauguration of the new building of the Museum of Modern Art in May 1939. Prior to the event, Frances Collins, the Museum’s Director of Publications at the time, decided to play a dangerous practical joke: she enlisted her friend Joseph Blumenthal of the Spiral Press to design and print a mock invitation to the gala, inviting guests to “The Museum of Standard Oil.” Collins was fired from the Museum shortly afterwards. Collins was not the only staff member to lose her job. Nelson Rockefeller, who had been appointed new President of the museum two days before the opening of the new building, soon brought in a team of “time-and-motion experts” to streamline the museum’s operations. “[Alfred] Barr was contemptuous of the efficiency experts, but, as his wife Marga would later write, ‘Alfred had not foreseen the consequences of their reports. Now, Nelson Rockefeller has bypassed Alfred’s authority as Director of the museum and has played havoc with its central nervous system.’ … Several key staffers wired Barr with their support, offering to join him in a resignation en masse.”
- Cary Reich, The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller, Worlds to Conquer 1908-1958 (New York: Doubleday, 1996)



Detail of Alexander Calder’s performing mobile Orange Fish (1946)
at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008
From the series Cultural Diplomacy: An Art We Neglect, 2007-2009
Orange Fish is one of Calder’s earliest surviving stage works, a “performing mobile” created in 1946.
The work was acquired by the Pahlavis for the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in 1976, and displayed to the public upon the museum’s inauguration in 1977. The museum’s opening ceremony was attended by many international guests and acquaintances of the royal family, among them Nelson Rockefeller, former president of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and former vice president of the United States. The portraits of Ruhollah Khomeini and Ali Khamenei were acquired by the museum after the 1978 Islamic Revolution of Iran.
“We are here to make a choice between the quick and the dead. That is our business. … We must provide the mechanism to assure that atomic energy is used for peaceful purposes and to preclude its use in war.”
- Bernard Baruch, remarks at the U.N. Atomic Energy Commission inauguration (June 15, 1946)
“Let us not be deceived—we are today in the midst of a cold war.”
- Bernard Baruch, speech at the Carolina State Legislature (April 17, 1947)





Didactic Panel and Model of Alexander Calder’s
Vertical Constellation with Bomb, 1943
From the series Cultural Diplomacy: An Art We Neglect, 2007-2009
“[T]he United States must face the prospect of acquiring and holding sufficient additional [petroleum] reserves to supply our military and civilian needs in the years ahead, irrespective of whether such reserves are within the borders of the United States…. They are in fact more important to the United States than to the countries that have them, because they are more vital to the life of the consumer than to the producer.”
- Ralph Davies (Deputy Coordinator of Petroleum Administration for War) to President Roosevelt, 1941
“By late 1942 Wallace Murray, head of the State Department’s Near Eastern and African Affairs (NEA) division, said that the U.S. would soon be ‘running’ Iran through ‘an impressive body of American advisers.’ “
- Daniel Yergin, The Shattered Peace; The Origins of the Cold War and the National Security State (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977), 180-82
“The USA’s new interests in Iran... obliged Moscow to modify its policies and reassess its postwar ambition, not only in Iran, but in the Near East as a whole. In the ensuing Cold War there would be losses and gains for both sides. Iran ranks as one of the USSR’s earliest losses in the conflict.”
- Louise L’Estange Fawcett, Iran and the Cold War (Cambridge University Press: 1992), 18




The Larger Picture, 1939-1942 (Modern Entanglements, U.S. Interventions)



Mobile for the Hotel Ávila, 1939-1942,
c-print digital reproduction (44-3/4 x 59-3/4 inches); real-size construction plan of Calder’s mobile for the ballroom of the hotel





Cultural Diplomacy: An Art We Neglect
Alessandro Balteo Yazbek in Collaboration with Media Farzin
Henrique Faria Fine Art, New York
October 15 to November 13, 2010

This body of work entangles modernist art with global politics to offer the viewer a narrative of unexpected connections that border on the absurd. This series, the result of a collaboration with art historian Media Farzink, draws on the cultural symmetry between their respective countries, Venezuela and Iran, which led them to investigate the hidden origins of the Cold War.

Their narrative sketches out the intersection of foreign policy and corporate ginterest that has controlled the distribution of global power since World War II, revealing a delicate Cold War balance of oil and bombs.

Alessandro Balteo Yazbeck’s work is informed by historic conceptual art. He uses exhibition design as a medium to create an aura of curatorial authority for his work. His approach highlights the notion of collaborative authorship by explicitly quoting, incorporating or making reference to the works of other artists, curators and historians. Balteo Yazbeck was born in Caracas, Venezuela. He works between Caracas and New York since 2000. While in Caracas, he studied design and fine arts, and graduated with an emphasis on sculpture. His work has been shown in museums and galleries throughout the world, and is represented at institutional and private collections. In 2008, Balteo Yazbeck had his first U.S. major solo exhibition at the Carpenter Center at Harvard University. He participated in the second Trienal PoliGrafica de San Juan in 2009 and will be taking part in the next Istanbul Biennale 2011.

Media Farzin is an art historian and critic. Her work focuses on interdisciplinary American art in the postwar period, particularly language-based work of the 1950s-1970s. She was curator, with Jon Hendricks and Marianne Bech, of “Make a salad.” Fluxus Scores and Instructions (Musset for Samtidskunst Roskilde, 2007). Her writings on Middle Eastern art have been published in Tehran Avenue, Bidoun and Emerging Cultural Continent; Actors and Networks (Istambul, 2008). She has a BA in Fine Arts from Tehran University, an MA in Modern Art History/Curatorial Studies from Columbia University, and is currently a doctoral candidate in Art History at the City University of New York.

visit Alessandro Balteo Yazbek's 2008 Carpenter Centre/Harvard exhibition here
http://noraquinoralla.blogspot.com/

Monday, November 29, 2010

Pictures from URBAN HAIKU AND MORE BOOK PARTY @ Wyld Chyld Tattoo Cafe

Hey Everyone,

Hope you all had a grand Turkey Day and got some great bargains on Black Friday.  I've been so busy at work and home that I neglected my blog.   I apologize.   Anyway, here are the pictures from my fun book party for my book, URBAN HAIKU and MORE, at the Wyld Chyld Tattoo and Café back on Thursday, October 28.




Enjoy!

Pattie 

 Ms. Carragon

Looking urbane

 
Douglas G. Swezey, my co-feature


 Lloyd Abrams, the host

 Peter V. Dugan

 the poets

 Doreen Spungin

 Jorde Wigeland

 Kaeti Wigeland

Tattoos R Us

 Doug's mom

 Doug

 Pattie and Kaeti  (taken by Jorde Wigeland)

Urban Haiku Rules!  (taken by Kaeti Wigeland)

REMINDER: Harry Bentivegna Lichtenstein and Maria Lisella on Saturday, December 4 at 2:30 p.m. at Park Plaza Restaurant

Poetry Grows in Brooklyn Heights


The Brownstone Poets presents:


Harry Bentivegna Lichtenstein and Maria Lisella


Saturday, December 4 at 2:30 p.m.


Park Plaza Restaurant
220 Cadman Plaza West near Clark St. & Pineapple Walk
Brooklyn, NY 11201 - 718 – 596 – 5900


Take the A or C to High Street, 2 or 3 to Clark Street,
4, 5 or R to Court Street, Borough Hall


$3 Donation – plus Food/Drink - Open Mic
Curated by Patricia Carragon email: pattiekake@earthlink.net


http://brownstonepoets.blogspot.com/


http://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/


http://myspace.com/pattiekake8


http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/Brownstone-Poets/541314712




BIOS




POET HARRY (a.k.a. Harry Bentivegna Lichtenstein) is a New York City poet, runner, health enthusiast, teacher, and Manager of Gary Null’s Eastside Center in Manhattan. Some of his poems, including Perspectives being performed here today, were published internationally. He has produced poetry and music variety shows, and self-published a novella. Harry received his MS from Howard University, Washington, DC and BA from Hunter College, CUNY.




Maria Lisella's Pushcart Poetry Prize-nominated work appears in Amore on Hope Street (Finishing Line Press) and Two Naked Feet (Poets Wear Prada), both of which are available on amazon.com. She co-curates, the longest running literary series at the Cornelia St. Cafe -- the Italian American Writers Association readings held monthly. She is a travel writer by profession.

More November Publication News


I'm proud to announce that Clockwise Cat published "Picture of Life" and "Beauty" in Issue #19.  So many wonderful writers, like George Held, Cindy Hochman, Carl Kavadlo, Alison Ross, and Connie Stadler, are also part of this issue.

http://clockwisecat.blogspot.com/2010/10/two-poems-by-patricia-carragon.html

I’m very impressed by Cindy Hochman’s professionalism as the editor of the First Literary Review - East’s November issue. Please check out my poems:

Open Mic Warhols
Cyber Cyanide
Alteration


at  http://www.rulrul.4mg.com/


Also in this issue are poems by Matthew Anish, Evie Ivy, Pamela L. Laskin, John Amen, Robert Gibbons, Joshua Meander, George Spencer, Brant Lyon, Nandini Dhar, George Held, and Lyn Lifshin

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WikiLeaks, Obama, Ellsburg and The Left WingNuts

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The left-wing liberal-progressive world community was elated when Daniel Ellsburg released thousands of pages of classified papers about the Viet Nam war to the New York Times in 1971. “What a wonderful and patriotic act” sung the liberal-choir!
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1871.html
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Fast forward to 2010 and the WikiLeaks Obama and Hillary Clinton State Department publications and now it’s a whole new ball game.
How dare these nasty people release material that makes Obama, Hillary and their lackeys look like the key-stone cops!
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Holden , Obama’s adjutant general who wants to play nice with terrorists who kill Americans, is now investigating what he normally would declare as a 1st Amendment and Free Press right. But not now! Making Obama look incredibly dull before the entire world (who are supposed to love him) is an act of treason at best.
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The hypocrisy of Obama, his pathetic team and the so called major media and press is unsurpassed in US history.
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/28/hillary-clinton-hits-diplomatic-trail-wikileaks-document-leak/
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Just more hope and change and hypocrisy we can believe in!
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Sleep and its impact on human health

Sleeping is very important to human body that it make body more comfortable
and why we need it, why it can be hard to get, and how it affects everything from athletic performance to our personal success and heath, is one of the hottest topics in science today.

In 2002 a study at the Scripps Clinic Sleep Center in La Jolla, California compared death rates among more than 1 million American adults. The adults were all a part of a study on cancer prevention and were required to report their average amount of sleep every night. At the time the results of the study from Scripps was surprising, but has since been substantiated by studies in Europe and East Asia.

So How Much Sleep Is Ideal
According to studies people who sleep between 6.5 and 7.5 hours a night live the longest. People who sleep 8 hours or more or less than 6.5 hours have shorter life spans. There seems to be evidence to support that there is just as much risk over sleeping as there is in under-sleeping.

It may be interesting to note that long sleep starts at 8 hours and sleeping 8.5 hours might really be a bit worse than sleeping 5 hours a night.
We can only guess at why people who sleep from 6.5 to 7.5 hours an night live longer, but we don’t really know the cause or the effect.

For example we don’t know for sure if a person who sleeps less time a night can live longer by extending their sleep and if a longer sleep can live longer by getting up a bit earlier.

One thing to remember as well if you are an athlete or bodybuilder, is that one of the only times we can grow or repair muscle is during certain stages of sleep. For the active trainer, and athlete our sleep is very important to recovery, in fact it is just as important as the workouts themselves.

The Eight-Hour Myth - Dispelled
So based on the studies and information at hand the 8 hours a night myth has been effectively squashed but it stems from an average. It's possible that the amount of sleep we need is determined by our genes and may be why we are either short or long sleepers.

The Long And Short Of It
Our genes may determine the amount of sleep our body requires for us to awaken feeling refreshed and recharged. This likely occurs across a gamut, with “short-sleepers” needing less than average and “long-sleepers” needing more.

Sleep Debt
When we don’t get enough sleep to meet our needs, we run into sleep debt. Sleep debt can accumulate. There are a number of signs or things that happen when we are in sleep debt
Daytime sleepiness
Fatigue
Difficulty concentrating
Poor judgment
Increased risk of accidents
Other health complications

We might be able to pay off sleep debt by taking naps or by sleeping in (or just going to bed earlier).

In conclusion
Sleep is very important to everyone regardless of whether you are a bodybuilder or regular person, so remember to make sure your body gets the rest it needs!
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http://www.fitness.com/articles/961/sleep.php

XXXI Encuentro de Geohistoria Regional

Concepción del Uruguay
21, 22 y 23 de Septiembre de 2011
1. Los Encuentros de Geohistoria Regional tienen por objetivo lograr el acercamiento, la colaboración mutua y el intercambio de experiencias y conocimientos entre los investigadores en ciencias humanas y sociales que estudian la temática regional del Nordeste argentino, en sentido geográfico amplio, incluyendo el área de Misiones Jesuíticas, el Paraguay, sur de Brasil y Bolivia.
2. La entidad organizadora se comprende a brindar lugar y elementos que faciliten el desarrollo de las sesiones y la información a los participantes sobre alojamiento y transportes. Los gastos de traslado y estadía correrán por cuenta de los participantes.
3. La entidad organizadora designará un Comité Organizador que se integrará con un Coordinador General, quien presidirá las sesiones plenarias, Coordinadores Adjuntos y Secretarias. El Comité Organizador estará facultado para aplicar el Reglamento, fijará los horarios de actividades y sesiones, el programa de exposiciones y decidirá sobre cuestiones que eventualmente no contemple el reglamento.
4. Para ser miembro pleno del Encuentro, se deberá presentar un trabajo original de investigación ajustado a la temática del mismo, de extensión máxima de 15 páginas, tamaño A4, a espacio sencillo, letra Times New Roman cuerpo 12, incluido aparato erudito, gráficos, mapas e ilustraciones.
La presentación se hará en un CD en programa Microsoft Word o por correo electrónico a los coordinadores de la Mesa con copia a la Comisión Organizadora. No se aceptarán trabajos que impliquen informes de avances, ni proyectos de investigación. Las notas deberán estar a pie de página e incorporadas mediante el sistema automático del procesador de texto (se enviarán pautas en próxima Circular).
5. Al 31 de marzo de 2011 se recibirán las propuestas de Mesas Temáticas que serán aceptadas por el  Comité Organizador y se difundirán luego para la inscripción de trabajos en cada mesa. Las mismas deberán tener una breve fundamentación de no más de 300 palabras. Tiene que incluir el nombre de dos coordinadores y su pertinencia institucional.
6. Al 31 de mayo de 2011 los participantes deberán enviar un resumen de su trabajo, de no más de 15 renglones, el cual será evaluado por el Coordinador de cada Mesa temática notificando la aceptación del mismo en el plazo de 15 días.
7. Para el 31 de julio de 2011 los participantes deben remitir el trabajo completo, que será enviado a los comentaristas de las sesiones. Se requieren 2 copias en papel (ver punto 4).
8. Cada investigador dispondrá de 15 minutos para exponer los aspectos más salientes y las conclusiones de su investigación. Se realizarán luego los comentarios y a continuación los participantes podrán solicitar explicaciones o ampliaciones sobre lo expuesto, con intervenciones de no más de 10 minutos de duración.
9. Todos los trabajos expuestos por sus autores serán editados en un CD que se distribuirá entre los participantes luego de finalizado el Encuentro. No se incluirán aquellos trabajos cuyos autores no participen en el Encuentro.
10. El Comité Organizador, conjuntamente con los comentaristas de sesión y mediante consulta con otros especialistas si fuera necesario, seleccionará los trabajos aceptados para su publicación en las Actas del Encuentro, en soporte papel. La entidad organizadora podrá requerir una cooperación pecuniaria -a establecerse oportunamente- a los autores de los trabajos seleccionados para dicha publicación.
11. Durante la sesión de clausura del Encuentro, se debatirán las mociones que por escrito pudieran presentar los participantes.
Recepción de Mesas temáticas: hasta el 31 de marzo de 2011 por correo electrónico a: engeoh@gmail.com
Recepción de Resúmenes: hasta el 31 de mayo de 2011 (serán remitidas al coordinador de mesa y a la Comisión Organizadora)
Recepción de Ponencias: hasta el 31de julio de 2011
Comisión Organizadora
Coordinador General: Prof. Celia Gladys López- Coordinadores Adjuntos: Magst- Celia D’Angelo-. Prof. Javier P. Borche- Prof. María Rosa Gianello- Prof. Lina Bosch- Secretarios. Lic. Heraldo Follín- Lic. Mónica Unrein- Lic. Raquel: Bonín-Prof. Hilda Traverso.
Dirección. Jordana N° 50- Planta baja- Concepción del Uruguay- Entre Ríos T. E. 03442- 425559
E-mail: engeoh@gmail.com
Web: https://sites.google.com/site/xxxiengeo

Agradezco al Profesor Horacio Zapata por esta información que contribuye al crecimiento y actualización de este blog.

VII ENCUENTRO DE HISTORIADORES - EVOLUCION HISTÓRICA DE LA PROVINCIA DE SANTA FE Y SUS ÁREAS DE INFLUENCIA

JUNTA PROVINCIAL DE ESTUDIOS HISTÓRICOS DE SANTA FE
Santa Fe - 8 de OCTUBRE de 2011
Convocatoria
La Junta Provincial de Estudios Históricos de Santa Fe, convoca al VII Encuentro de Historiadores que tendrá lugar en la ciudad de Santa Fe, el día 8 de octubre de 2011, el que será dedicado al análisis de la EVOLUCIÓN HISTÓRICA DE LA PROVINCIA DE SANTA FE Y ÁREAS DE INFLUENCIA. (sin limitación temporal).
La convocatoria está dirigida a los historiadores, docentes y estudiantes de Facultades de Historia e Institutos Superiores, así como investigadores en general que aborden temáticas históricas vinculadas a la región, que deseen presentar trabajos o participar de las deliberaciones.
Presentación de los trabajos:
Hasta el 31 de julio, en la dirección electrónica de la Junta Provincial de Estudios Históricos, jpeh@arnetbiz.com.ar, conjuntamente con los datos personales: nombre/s, domicilio/s, teléfono/s, documento/s, un breve CV del autor/res.
Costo de la inscripción:
Hasta el 31 de julio se percibirá en concepto de inscripción $ 60 para activos, $30 para adherentes y $15 para estudiantes.
Características de los trabajos:
Los trabajos deberán ser inéditos y tener una extensión no mayor de 20 páginas, ni menor de 15. Constarán de aparato crítico, notas bibliográficas y documentales a pie de página. También podrán presentarse avances de investigaciones en curso, debiéndose destacar el carácter de tales.
Al principio de la colaboración, luego del título, se incluirá una síntesis de unas diez líneas, indicando los lineamientos fundamentales del escrito. Estas síntesis serán publicadas y distribuidas por la Junta, en un cuadernillo que incluirá también las nóminas de participantes, comisiones de trabajo, el temario, el programa de actividades, y una copia del reglamento del Encuentro.
El/los participante/s traerá/n para la sesión presencial del Encuentro un ejemplar impreso en papel formato Iram A-4 (210 x 297 mm.) con un margen izquierdo de 3 cm., y el derecho, superior e inferior de 2 cm. que se conservará en la Secretaría de la Junta.
Los trabajos serán leídos por un Comité Académico que podrá señalar consideraciones previas al autor y formulará comentarios en la comisión de trabajo del Encuentro, con posterioridad a la exposición del/ los autores, ambas no podrán superar los 10 minutos.
Una recopilación de los trabajos presentados será editada en CD y distribuida entre los presentes.
La sesión inaugural del Encuentro tendrá lugar en la sede de la Junta, en Mons. Zazpe 2861, de la ciudad de Santa Fe. Para el trabajo de comisiones podrán ocuparse otros espacios.

Agradezco al Profesor Horacio Zapata por esta información que contribuye al crecimiento y actualización de este blog.

Sunday, November 28, 2010

RUNO LAGOMARSINO, 'A CONQUEST MEANS NOT ONLY TAKING OVER' AT THE CENTRO CULTURAL MONTHERMOSO










Runo Lagomarsino
A Conquest Means Not Only Taking Over (II)
2010. Installation with wallpaper, drawings, photographs and objects


Runo Lagomarsino
A Conquest Means Not Only Taking Over (II)
From the exhibition ”Monkey See Monkey Do” at the The Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz
curated by Anna Johansson, Emma Reichert, Elena Tzotzi / Tetriss Produktion
September 17th - January 23rd

"The starting point of the wallpaper was Pizarro’s signature/rubric, which when I saw for the first time made me puzzled by its beautifulness, its abstraction, almost like a painting by Cy Twombly. The paradox between its beautifulness, how harmless it looked, and the power that it contained (and the symbolic power it still contains) is something important for me. How is power visualized? How is an image narrated? Does a signature have a voice over? Are the empty spaces between the rubrics the other, the other’s voices and stories?"

The expeditions of Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan Empire in the beginning of the 16th century in his search for gold and glory, occupy an indisputable position in our history books. A not so well-known fact however, is that Pizarro could neither read nor write. His signature consisted of two squiggles, each time confirmed by a notary public who signed in between. This abstract sign, almost a drawing, is the signature of power that sanctioned acts of violence and oppression altering the future of both the “New” and the “Old World”.

Through an intricate arrangement of loose associations, symbolic fragments and historical facts Runo Lagomarsino traces out the double-edged relationship between modernity and colonialism, and its consequences on our times. The advocates of colonization once argued for their God-given duty to impose universal values (in this case through Catholicism) in order to salvage the native people. Later on when freedom, democracy, and reason (religious tolerance included) were introduced through the Enlightenment as primary values of society, another set of power games and destruction was triggered. Disparate forms of endless exploitation lead up to societies of today burdened with unresolved problems that haunt us like ghosts from our past.

Observing this movement of history how is it then, if at all, possible to break with the vicious circle of repetitive injustices? To revisit and examine historical experiences in order to understand the aims and interests that lie behind them is perhaps one way. Another is to continuously keep asking ourselves who are “we” and what do we in fact “support”?

Runo Lagomarsino was born in Lund, Sweden, in 1977, and lives and works in Sao Paulo and Malmo. He studied Visual Arts at the Academy of Fine Art Valand, in Gothenburg, at the Malmo Art Academy and at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, in New York City. He has exhibited regularly since the beginning of the 2000s. Of note among his recent solo exhibitions are: “Between an Imperial System and a Metric System” (Elastic, Artissima, Turin, 2010); “Horizon (Southern Sun Drawing”) (Elastic, Zona Maco, Mexico City, 2010); “Las Casas is Not a Home” (Mummery + Schnelle, London, 2009); “Those Who Control the Past Command the Future – Those Who Command the Future Conquer the Past (Overgaden, Copenhagen, 2007); This Is No Time for Saluting Flags (Elastic, Malmo, 2006). Recent group exhibitions include “The Moderna Exhibition 2010” (Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 2010; “The Travelling Show” (Colección Jumex, Mexico City, 2010); “Free as Air and Water” (Cooper Union, New York, 2009); “Report on Probability” (Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, 2009); 2ª Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan (2009); Luleå Biennial (2009); “Ours: Democracy in the Age of Branding” (Parsons The New School for Design, New York, 2008); 7ª Gwangju Biennial (2008); 3ª Guangzhou Triennial (2008).

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