INTERCEPTING HETEROPATRIARCHY COLONIAL NORMATIVE: LATIN@ QUEER MEDIA ARTISTS AND THEIR WORKS
[a work in progress] by Raúl Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet
There is an historical trace of Latin American art criticism interrogating how imperial technology marks the ideologies of ‘progress’ and ‘vanguard’ in relation to art production. Marta Traba, when writing about the arts of the United States in the 1950’s and ‘60´s, argues that the artistic production of this country derived directly from the imperatives of the consumer society and was always related to the optimism of the ‘New Deal’ and the disillusions emerging in the post second world war period. The Argentinean historian affirms that artists employing technologies in the United States are loyal servants capable of constructing control mechanisms leading toward total militarism.

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