The Latin American Speakers Series

The Latin American Speakers Series aims to contextualize Latin American art within Canada as well as enrich our understanding of Latin American art from both the continent and the Diaspora. Through lectures, audio-visual presentations and discussions, the series serves as an opportunity for cultural exchange. This year we have invited renowned artists Coco Fusco, Rosângela Rennó, Teresa Margolles and curator Chus Martínez to present their work and commitment to the development of an aesthetic rich of social content and critical dialogue.

The Latin American Speakers Series is curated by Tamara Toledo and presented by Latin American Canadian Art Projects.


COCO FUSCO
Moderated by Sally Frater


Thursday, February 14, 2013 7:30 PM
Prefix ICA   401 Richmond Street West, Suite 124
$5 LACAP members - $10 Admission (Please arrive at 7PM to reserve your seat)

The interdisciplinary artist speaks about her recent work on the Plaza de la Revolución in Havana, comparing and contrasting it with active public spaces in other parts of the world.

COCO FUSCO is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist, writer and Director of Intermedia Initiatives at Parsons The New School for Design. Fusco received her B.A. in Semiotics from Brown University (1982), her M.A. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University (1985) and her Ph.D. in Art and Visual Culture from Middlesex University (2007). She has performed, lectured, exhibited and curated around the world since 1988. She is a recipient of a 2012 USA Artists Fellowship and a 2003 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. Fusco's performances and videos have been presented in two Whitney Biennials (2008 and 1993), the Sydney Biennale, The Johannesburg Biennial, The Kwangju Biennale, The Shanghai Biennale, InSite O5, Mercosul, Transmediale, The London International Theatre Festival, VideoBrasil and Performa05. Her works have also been shown at the Tate Liverpool, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona. She is represented by Alexander Gray Associates in New York.

Fusco is the author of English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas (1995), The Bodies that Were Not Ours and Other Writings (2001), and A Field Guide for Female Interrogators (2008). She is also the editor of Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas (1999) and Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self (2003).

SALLY FRATER is an independent curator and writer. She holds an Honors BA in Studio Art from the University of Guelph and an MA (with Distinction) in Contemporary Art from The University of Manchester and Sotheby's Institute of Art. She has curated numerous exhibitions in Houston, Toronto, Hamilton and Peterborough and her writing has appeared in catalogues for the Studio Museum in Harlem, The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and for journals such as Prefix Photo, Border Crossings magazine, C Magazine, Fuse, Canadian Art, among many others. She is currently a Core Critical Studies Fellow at the Glassell School at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and a resident at Project Row Houses, Houston.

Presented by Latin American Canadian Art Projects (LACAP), Prefix ICA and Third Space Art Projects.
About the Curator of the Latin American Speakers Series:
Tamara Toledo is a Toronto-based visual artist, curator, and teacher. Toledo is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design (Honours) and holds an MFA from York University. She is co-founder of the Allende Arts Festival and the Latin American Canadian Art Projects (LACAP). Toledo's curatorial projects include: Alienation (De Leon White Gallery), Idiomática (Lennox Gallery), Recycled Captions (Harbourfront Centre), Pilgrimage of Wanderers (A Space Gallery), Home Sweet Hogar (Artscape Wychwood Barns), Pop and Politics (George Brown College) and the Latin American Speakers Series. Toledo's critical essays on Latin American art have been published in various Canadian art journals and magazines.

For more information please contact us at:
lacap@bellnet.ca
416-656-5687
www.lacap.ca
LACAP
601 Christie Street, Suite 255
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6G 4C7
LACAP gratefully acknowledges the support of its volunteers; its sponsor Inter Continental Hotel; and its partners OCAD University, Prefix ICA and Third Space Projects. LACAP also acknowledges the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council.