1st Symposium of Printed Art
San Miguel de Tucumán

´ace’s director Alicia Candiani, has been invited to give a keynote lecture and to become part of the Refereeing Committee of the papers that will be presented at the First Latin American Printmaking Symposium, which will be held from the 25th to the 27th of July  in the city of San Miguel de Tucumán Argentina. “Expanded Field Printmaking Practices: areas of transgression” is scheduled for July the 25th at 10.30am.

The Printmaking Workshop of the College of Arts of the National University of Tucuman will be hosting the Symposium, which seeks to expand the debate regarding contemporary printmaking through an open call to educators, researchers, artists and advanced students who work with this technique. The program will address and focus on the following themes: Interdisciplinarity and / or transdisciplinarity, Education, Production and circulation of artistic pieces, Techniques and procedures and Non-traditional and alternative editions.

In addition, the symposium covers a range of activities including graphic technique workshops, printmaking techniques, an exhibition of posters and mini prints. For more information or to register and participate in this event, please contact the organizers via email simposioarteimpreso@yahoo.com.ar.

“Expanded field printmaking practices: areas of transgression” will be presented as a platform for the reflection regarding the “expanded” printmaking, analyzing multiple visual examples of contemporary artists who use print media in situations of transgression.

In the particular case of printmaking, there is a breakdown of the conventional parameters that leads to a cyclical approach to other categories -photography, installations and video- and this gap places itself  into a “in-between” category,  extending not only to technological displacement or hybridization of the practice but also to the conception of art itself: the concern does not go through the definition of gender with which they work, even for the technique that the artists use, but to the discursive effectiveness that artwork generates through these hybrid means.