ART467/LAS413: Museum as Laboratory: Experimental Art Practices in Latin America and Beyond

ART467/LAS413: Museum as Laboratory: Experimental Art Practices in Latin America and Beyond

Clemente Padin, The Artist is in Service of the Community, 1974/1981

 Co-taught with Cristina Freire, Visiting Research Scholar and Visiting Professor in the Program in Latin American Studies, 2019

Museums have long disciplined conducts and framed ways of seeing through the production and reproduction of dominant values. But can they also act as instruments of transformation, even emancipation? This course investigates the museum and the exhibition as sites of experimentation within the overlapping spheres of art, society, and technology, with particular focus on their implications and enactment in Latin America. Key components will be hands-on work with the collections of Latin American art in the Princeton University Art Museum and Marquand and Firestone Libraries as well as visits with artists and trips to museums in New York.