Plans for Barracao Experiment 2 (related to former Nests experiments), included in the Museum of Modern Art’s 1970 exhibition Information, 1970.
From Latin American and the US
Umberto Eco's concept of the Open Work—an artwork that could not be completed without the viewer's participation—was highly useful for Latin American conceptualists from the late 1960s through the 1970s because it named the collaborative and performative emphasis of their artworks. Open Work in Latin America, New York & Beyond: Conceptualism Reconsidered, 1967–1978 displays the capacious nature of conceptualism by exhibiting 91 books, video, sound, prints, drawings, installations and photography by 36 artists working in Latin America and the USA. The exhibition runs from February 7 to May 5.
Although not a historical survey, the show presents a collective desire to use the body to destabilize systems of representation shared by artists from Latin America working in conceptual modes from 1967 to 1978, such as Artur Barrio, Luis Camnitzer, Sigfredo Chacón, Eduardo Costa, Iole de Freitas, Antonio Dias, Rubens Gerchman, Cildo Meireles, Ana Mendieta, Marta Minujín, Hélio Oiticica and Anna Bella Geiger (who has works in Videobrasil Collection), among many others.
For more information about related events, including lectures by Dan Quiles, Gabriela Rangel, and performances and screenings organized by students at Hunter College, go to the institutions website.
Source: E-flux