Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This newsletter invites readers to a presentation of Escrito con un nictógrafo, Arturo Carrera’s first book of poems, published by Editorial Sudamericana in 1972. The Argentine creator made his presentation at the CAYC; Professor Enrique [...]

This newsletter announces another seminar at the CAYC in Buenos Aires, to be presented by Eduardo Rabossi. The event was organized by the recently created Escuela de Altos Estudios (EAE). The description states that the seminar, “Significado, [...]

This newsletter announces one of the first activities on the program of the Escuela de Altos Estudios (EAE), the recently created entity within the CAYC’s original structure. The Argentine anthropologist and cultural promoter Néstor Garc [...]

This newsletter announced the basic objectives of the Escuela de Altos Estudios (EAE) when it was created as a research entity within the CAYC. These objectives included coordinating interdisciplinary theoretical thinking and artistic practice. The [...]

This newsletter announces the program for May of 1973 at the Escuela de Altos Estudios (EAE), an entity that had recently been created as part of the CAYC. The article also mentions some of the goals of the research program, focused primarily on the [...]

This newsletter announces the seminar La música técnica en el siglo XX, to be presented at the CAYC by César Bolaños, from Peru. Among its various initial objectives for this seminar, which was focused on the international [...]

This newsletter announces that a lecture on contemporary art will be given at the CAYC. Despite the fact that the title of the event and the name of the speaker have been omitted—probably due to a design error—the resume included makes it [...]

This newsletter invites readers to the presentation of El cazador metafísico, a book by Luis Pazos, published by Ediciones Noé (March 1972), which was awarded the First Prize for Poetry by the Fondo Nacional de las Artes the previous [...]

This newsletter announces the course “China popular sin filtros (experiencias de un fotógrafo).” Rubén Núñez would present the course and discuss his travels in Asia, specifically, The People’s Republic [...]

This newsletter invites readers to the seminar “Introducción a la investigación semiológica,” which Professor Armando Sercovich will present at the CAYC. The center was interested in these types of events that [...]

This newsletter invites readers to come to the CAYC to meet the famous Polish theater director Jerzy Grotowski, who introduced the idea of “poor theater.” The newsletter includes a brief bio of this thespian pioneer who developed the [...]

The creation of the Escuela de Altos Estudios (EAE, the School of Advanced Studies) as an integral part of the CAYC lent the center academic and intellectual cachet through an interdisciplinary approach. This newsletter includes a text in which [...]

This newsletter announces the creation of the Escuela de Altos Estudios (EAE, the School of Advanced Studies), which would operate as part of the CAYC. The military’s interference in universities led to personnel changes in Argentina. The EAE& [...]

This newsletter announces the publication of the first issue of Diafragma, a magazine devoted to Argentine and Latin American photography and film, edited by Miguel Ángel Otero. The article provides a list of the publication’s goals, [...]

As part of an attempt to promote the exhibition of works by the Grupo de los Trece at the CAYC, this newsletter introduces the dancer and choreographer Nélida Puig and invites readers to the performance she will give to celebrate the group& [...]

This newsletter invites readers to the experimental music concert that was staged as part of the exhibition Arte de sistemas II at the CAYC in Buenos Aires. The article includes the program of musical pieces and mentions the use of the Holimar sound [...]

This newsletter invites readers to the experimental music concert to be presented as part of the exhibition Arte de sistemas II Internacional at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (MAMBA), which will feature a performance by the guru of [...]

This newsletter invites readers to attend “Semiótica de la arquitectura” (The Semiotics of Architecture), a seminar to be presented by Professor Armando Sercovich at the CAYC in Buenos Aires. This event demonstrated the center& [...]

This newsletter invites readers to attend the seminar Arte y comunicación, to be presented by Abraham Moles. The CAYC was keenly interested in promoting a connection between theoretical thinking and artistic practice among a diverse group of [...]

This newsletter invites readers to a roundtable discussion about art biennials. There was, at that time, the issue of the controversy caused by the XI São Paulo Biennial that took place in Brazil from September to November 1971. The article [...]

This newsletter invites readers to attend the seminar, Introducción a la investigación semiológica, to be presented by Professor Armando Sercovich at the CAYC. As mentioned in the newsletter, the event represents the center&rsquo [...]

This newsletter is an invitation to attend “Antiliteratura y escritura (de cortázar a puig)” (Anti-literature and Writing: From Cortázar to Puig), a talk by Professor Alfred Mac Adam. This event came about as a result of the [...]

This newsletter invites readers to take part in the series of Jornadas Intensivas de Discusión (Intensive Discussion Workshops) that the CAYC organized in 1970 and 1971. This initiative was part of the center’s attempt to connect [...]

This newsletter announces the critic and theorist Charles Harrison’s visit to Buenos Aires and reports on the activities planned for his stay including conversations at the openings of two exhibitions: Yehuda Neiman and El arte como idea en [...]

This newsletter serves as an invitation to “Introducción a la investigación semiológica”, a seminar taught by Professor Armando Sercovich and his team at the CAYC. It provides details about the program for the seminar [...]

This newsletter invites readers to take part in the “Jornadas Intensivas de Discusión 1970,” a forum for discussion organized by the CAYC from 1970–71. The gesture conveys the center’s interest in making connections [...]

Yet another newsletter invites readers to take part in the “Jornadas Intensivas de Discusión 1970,” a forum for discussion organized by the CAYC that year and the following year. The article conveys the center’s interest in [...]

This newsletter invites readers to the “Jornadas Intensivas de Discusión 1970,” an event organized by the CAYC in 1970–71. This initiative was part of the center’s plan to link theoretical thinking with art practice [...]

This newsletter provides a look at the Polish critic and curator Jasia Reichardt’s resume in advance of the three presentations she was scheduled to make at the CAYC in Buenos Aires. Her successful exhibition Cybernetic Serendipity (1968) had [...]

This newsletter (written in English) published a call for submissions inviting artists and architects to take part in Imagen y palabra, an exhibition organized by the CAYC. The article includes instructions for submissions as applied to their [...]

This newsletter (written in English) published a call for submissions inviting artists and architects to take part in Imagen y palabra, an exhibition organized by the CAYC. The article includes instructions for submissions as applied to their [...]

This newsletter published the file containing information concerning the shipment of videos to be entered in the V Encuentro Internacional Abierto de Video, organized by the CAYC at the  Internationaal Cultureel Centrum in Antwerp, Belgium. [...]

This newsletter announces the creation of multidisciplinary study groups devoted to the exploration of alternative approaches in the field of architecture at the CAYC’s School of Advanced Studies. The article mentions subjects of interest and [...]

This newsletter announces the opening of an exhibition of works by artists who had taken part in the Hasselblad Competition, “Arte y Fotografía en Latinoamérica” (Art and Photography in Latin America). The article lists the [...]

After the exhibition Homenaje a Salvador Allende was shown at the CAYC the previous year, this newsletter provided instructions for those who wished to take part in a traveling show organized by the center. The goal of the project was to commemorate [...]

As part of the campaign to promote the exhibition Arte de sistemas II at the Plaza Roberto Arlt in Buenos Aires in September 1972, this newsletter published a work by the artist Adalberto Marzano. Conducting a sort of survey, Marzano asked what [...]

This newsletter announces the opening of Composiciones seriadas, an exhibition of works by the North American artist Sol Lewitt (1928–2007) at the CAYC’s center in Buenos Aires. The article includes a series of images from Serial Project [...]

This newsletter (written in English) announces the opening of the Exposición internacional de proposiciones a realizar. Investigaciones poéticas, the event organized by Edgardo Antonio Vigo with assistance from Elena Pelli (Argentina) [...]

This issue announces that the CAYC’s GT newsletters and its catalogues will no longer be distributed free of charge. The article stipulates the fees that would henceforth be charged. The so-called “yellow pages,” or GTs, were the [...]

This newsletter comments on the survey that invited candidates to submit proposals for the Berlin Workshop for Experimental Art 1974. This event was conceived as a permanent exchange platform where artists and intellectuals could discuss a kind of [...]

This newsletter published a call for the submission of films to a Festival para formatos no comerciales, an event to be held at the CAYC with screenings scheduled for October to November 1973. The newsletter invited candidates to submit works with a [...]

This newsletter published a call for submissions to an exhibition called Contrainformación, organized by Miguel Ángel Otero, to be held at the CAYC. The article provides a list of possible themes, highlighting photography’s [...]

This newsletter published the rules for the call for submissions to El grabado y la realidad nacional, an event organized by the CAYC. Voting was conducted with tickets issued to visitors of the exhibition Arte de Sistemas II at its three locations, [...]

This newsletter published the rules for the Third British International Print Biennale, to be held from July to September 1972 in Bradford, Yorkshire, in the north of England. The newsletter included a copy of the call for entries in an attempt to [...]

This newsletter announces the competition that was jointly organized by the CAYC and the Aurora home appliance company. The goal of the initiative was to generate a selection of designs for interchangeable front panels for refrigerators that would [...]

This newsletter announces the opening of Ocupación topológica, an exhibition of works by Gastão de Magalhães, at the CAYC in Buenos Aires in February 1979. The article describes the works by the Brazilian visual artist as [...]

This newsletter (written in Portuguese) published a critical text in which Jorge Glusberg discussed the work of the artist and architect Clorindo Testa, a member of the Grupo de los Trece. Some months earlier, in October 1977, the group was awarded [...]

This newsletter (written in English) announces the exhibition presented at the CAYC in June 1976: Arte en cambio II. ¿hay vanguardia en Latinoamérica? The works displayed at the show are the answers provided by the twenty-three [...]

This newsletter provided the “designer” registration form required to take part in Contemporánea 76. The exhibition was devoted to architectural interior design and included a prize inspired by the work of the Swiss architect Le [...]