Research Interests for Pedro Lasch

I see my work as a consecutive set of acts and ideas that complement and interrupt the flow of the everyday. It’s a chain of routine-breaking routines. My role as an artist, researcher, educator, activist, cultural organizer, and producer can be understood as a cohesive whole, which develops within specific social situations and exists within and outside of conventional art settings. Presentations in museums, galleries, and academic contexts represent only a part of my overall production. A preoccupation with the theory and practice of a socially engaged art, which is rooted in daily exchanges, has led me to the formulation of an aesthetics based on public interventions, social interactions, games, and temporal rearrangements. The range of my projects encompasses anti-monuments, language games, artist's books, radio works, lunch events, experimental workshops, events, and activities, as well as more conventional work in the form of installations, video, photography, painting, printmaking, and drawing. Regular participation in the organization and production of cultural and social networks, such as art collectives like 16Beaver Group (NY) and various immigrant grassroots organizations is also a very significant part of my work. The circulation of my work in international circuits is a direct result of an ongoing engagement with the culture of cross-class cosmpolitanism.

Keywords:

Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, Visual Studies, Visual Practice, Conceptual Art, Installation Art, Political Art, Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Video, Performance, Latino/a Studies, Immigration Studies, Latin American Studies, Experimental Pedagogy, Cultural Anthropology, Sociology

Areas of Interest:

Contemporary Art
Visual Culture
Visual Studies
Political Art
Conceptual Art
Drawing
Painting
Printmaking
Video
Installation Art
Performance
Visual Practice
Latino/a Studies
Immigration Studies
Latin American Studies
Experimental Pedagogy
Sociology
Semiotics
Epistemology
History & Philosophy of Science

Recent Publications

1. Pfeiffenberger, Sylvia, Art Below the Border, This Month at Duke (December 29, 2009), Durham, NC
2. with S. Aravamudan, J. Gonzalez, P. Lasch, A. Maillet, W. Mignolo, P. Sigal, Black Mirror/Espejo Negro, in Black Mirror/Espejo Negro: A Museum Installation & Related Projects by Pedro Lasch (Fall-forthcoming, 2009), Franklin Humanities Institute (Duke), Luxe Gallery (NY) & Joan Mitchell Foundation (NY)
3. P. Lasch, Tanta Cerca Tan Cerquita, in Catalog for Transitio 2007: International Festival of Electronic Arts & Transnational Communities, edited by Eds. Grace Quintanilla & Mariana Delgado (Spring - forthcoming, 2009), Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City
4. Cortes, Alejandro, El arte siempre va con la política, Que Pasa Triangle (2008, June 12-18), Raleigh, NC
5. Greenberg, Blue, Triangle's ten best art exhibitions of 2008, The Herald-Sun (December 28, 2008), Durham, NC