UCR ARTSblock receives $125,000 from The Getty Foundations initiative, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA for Critical Utopias: The Art of Futurismo Latino. The three museums that comprise UCR’s ARTSblock will host an exhibition on the representation of Latin American artists and Latinos/as in science fiction, and the ways that contemporary Latin American and Latino artists employ science fiction for social, cultural, and political critique. Scholars and writers have begun to investigate the genre’s affinity with histories of colonialism and its power to offer alternative perspectives on history. Drawing on the University’s strong faculty and collections in this area, the project will bring together scholars in science-fiction studies with curators and artists to examine Latin American and Latino science fiction’s capacity to imagine new realities, both utopic and dystopic. While the study of Latin American science fiction in literature and film is well underway, UCR’s focus on the visual arts promises to be groundbreaking. Research includes travel to cities throughout the U.S., Mexico, the Caribbean, and South America. latimes/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-getty-pacific-standard-time-latino-latin-american-art-grants-20140502-story.html#page=1 From Getty pacificstandardtime.org/ List of all recipients news.getty.edu/images/9036/pstlalapressrelease2014.pdf
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