Visual & Performance Arts
Tuesday, 13 December 2011 12:42
Brief Encounters in Argentina and Patagonia – a Welsh Odyssey
July 1865. A single tea clipper, The Mimosa, set sail from Liverpool to the west coast of Argentina carrying with it the hopes of 153 pioneers from Wales, 8000 miles away. Their journey was the dream of the revolutionary idealist Michael Jones – a desperate bid to secure a homeland for the people and language of Wales, under assault from the neighbouring English.
Thursday, 01 December 2011 14:07
In Pursuit of Beauty and Truth
The idea that vision is superior to the other senses would explain the commonly held assumption that humans learn better through images, and that ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’. When a new technology that reproduced what the eyes see started to be developed in the nineteenth century, its impact was felt in distinct areas such as art, the social sciences and psychology.
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Saturday, 14 May 2011 19:47
Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro de Bogotá
For 22 years, the Colombian capital city has hosted the Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro de Bogota, a celebration of the dramatic arts. The festival takes place every two years and, until her death in 2008, was produced and directed by Fanny Mikey, an Argentine actress of international renown who first created the festival in 1988.
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Sunday, 13 February 2011 00:48
Outsider Art, psychiatry and the museum
‘Outsider Art’ is one of the terms used to refer to work made by self-taught artists in general, and inpatients (or clients, as preferred by some) in psychiatric institutions, in particular. The use of the term is polemic for it implies a distinction between ‘outsider’ and mainstream art.
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Did you know
The most ancient human presence in the region of South America can be found in Piedra Museo (Santa Cruz) Argentinean Patagonia dating back to 11,000 years BC. |
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