Reconfigurations of Time: Reflections on the Exhibition, Arts of Resistance: Politics and the Past in Latin America, UBC Museum of Anthropology

This article reflects on the exhibition Arts of Resistance: Politics and the Past in Latin America, showing how the project challenged common representations of Central and South American art and history by displaying local, often Indigenous, ways of managing cultural heritage, as well as some of the ways that ancestral knowledge and popular arts are used to document and resist political realities. Furthermore, it argues for the overt politicization of museological and exhibitionary perspectives using radical cosmopolitical theory. Through this framework, I argue for the political significance of the art forms included in the exhibition that champion local philosophies and positions in the face of various forms of marginalization.

Virtual Reality Media and Aesthetics

Technological developments are among the most significant of influences on the arts and artistic practice. Several recent successful commercial releases of virtual reality headsets, including PlayStation 4 VR and the HTC Vive, are beginning to have a transformative influence on popular arts such as videogames. While VR technology has frequently led philosophers to speculate on metaphysical issues such as the ontological status of the worlds and objects depicted by the medium, what has been less discussed is how virtual media, as a vehicle for popular art, have the potential to reconfigure our experience of, and interaction with, depictive media. This chapter explores some of the issues in VR that will be of most interest to philosophers of the arts, including an analysis of virtuality and virtual media, and their relationship to earlier modes of perspectival depiction.

The Manual Industries of Peru: indigenismo, trabajo manual y tutelaje artístico entre Lima y el Museo de Arte Moderno de Nueva York (1942-1948)

En la década de los cuarenta y con el auspicio del Museo de Arte Moderno de Nueva York (MoMA), el artista estadounidense Truman Bailey dirigió una escuela-taller en Lima, en la que empleó y entrenó a cerca de 80 trabajadores, para producir artículos de lujo inspirados en artes populares andinas. En este ensayo sostengo que el taller constituyó no solo un proyecto indigenista de preservación de tradiciones indígenas, como afirmaron sus organizadores, Bailey y el influyente curador René d’Harnoncourt. Considero que el taller fue, además, y sobre todo, un espacio para la formación de trabajadores a partir del entrenamiento en diseño modernista y en modos de producción y comercialización del capitalismo industrial estadounidense.Palabras clave: arte latinoamericano, indigenismo, modernismo, René d’Harnoncourt, Truman Bailey, arte popular, artes aplicadas AbstractIn the forties and with the sponsorship of the Museum of Modern Art of New York (MoMA), the U.S artist Truman Bailey directed a school-workshop in Lima where he employed and trained nearly 80 workers to produce luxury items inspired by Andean popular arts. In this essay, the author argues that the workshop was not only an indigenous project to preserve indigenista traditions as its organizers, Bailey and influential curator René d’Harnoncourt, claimed. The author considers that the workshop was also and above all, a space for workers’ formation through training in modernist design and modes of production and commercialization of U.S industrial capitalism.Keywords: Latin American art, indigenismo, modernism, René d’Harnoncourt, Truman Bailey, arte popular, applied arts

NILAI-NILAI BUDAYA MINANGKABAU DALAM NASKAH DRAMA DR. ANDA KARYA WISRAN HADI

ABSTRAK: Rabunnya wawasan terhadap nilai-nilai budaya daerah di kalangan masyarakat semakin kurang diperhatikan sejak kesenian populer maupun barat menjamur di Indonesia. Dengan demikian, budaya tradisi perlu diberi ruang luas dalam berekspresi, yang tentu dilandasan dengan budaya-budaya daerah. Naskah drama karya Wisran Hadi dipilih karena cerita didalamnya mampu memberikan wawasan tentang kebudayaan Minangkabau yang penuh pemaknaan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan (1) Jenis-jenis budaya Minangkabau dan (2) Nilai-nilai budaya dalam kehidupan masyarakat Minangkabau. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan antropologi sastra. Pendekatan antropologi sastra dipilih karena sastra saling berkaitan dengan budaya yang membentuknya. Sumber data yang digunakan yaitu naskah drama DR. Anda, sedangkan data dalam penelitian ini adalah sekuens cerita, kutipan satuan cerita berwujud dialog dan monolog. Metode penelitian yang digunakan dalam penelitian yaitu deskriptif kualitatif. Metode deskriptif digunakan untuk mendeskripsikan makna nilai budaya Minangkabau melalui naskah drama DR.Anda. Hasil penelitian ini berupa. Pertama, jenis-jenis budaya Minangkabau meliputi: pepatah pepitih, arti nama Minagkabau, merantau, pakaian adat, dan upacara adat. Kedua, Nilai-nilai kebudayaan berupa: nilai budaya politik dan nilai budaya sosial masyarakat Minangkabau.� KATA KUNCI: Antropologi Sastra; Budaya Minangkabau; DR.Anda. �MINANGKABAU CULTURAL VALUES IN DR.ANDA PLAY SCRIPT BY WISRAN HADI�ABSTRACT: The insight toward local cultural values amongst the society is getting paid less attention since the western and popular arts spread out in Indonesia. Therefore, culture and tradition need to give more space to express themselves which certainly are based on local cultures. The play script by Wisran Hadi was chosen because it gave meaningful insightf of Minangkabau culture. This research aimed to describe (1) kinds of Minangkabau culture and (2) cultural values in the life of Minangkabau society. This research used literary anthropology approach. The approach used was the play script of DR.Anda, while the data in this research were the sequence of the story and quotes of story unit in the form of dialogues and monologues. The method used in this research was descriptive qualitative. The descriptive method was used to describe the meaning of Minangkabau cultural values through the DR.Anda script play. The results were first, the cultures of Minangkabau included: sayings, meaning of Minangkabau names, traditional clothes and traditional ceremonies. Second, the cultural vales were: the value of political culture and the value of social cultural of Minangkabau society.KEYWORDS: DR.Anda; Literary Anthropology; Minangkabau culture.

First Person: The pandemic’s silver lining: Real talk for future teachers

When the COVID-19 pandemic closed her university campus, Jamie Hipp had to move her popular arts integration class for preservice teachers to a virtual format. She was surprised to learn that her students wanted more than regular sessions during their scheduled class times; they wanted additional opportunities for “real teacher talk” about going on interviews, setting up a classroom, and other practical matters that weren’t being covered in their preservice program. Hipp set up a series of virtual sessions on topics of interest to students, in addition to regular class sessions. The sessions went so well that Hipp intends to continue having them, even after the pandemic is over and her campus reopens.