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Pedro Lasch, Assistant Research Professor

Pedro LaschSpecialization:

    Drawing, Painting and Multimedia


Research Interests:

Area 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

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.

Education:

  • BFA - Visual Arts The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY 1999

Contact Info:

Office Location:  220 Smith Warehouse
Email Address:   pedro.lasch@duke.edu
Web Page:   http://www.pedrolasch.com/


Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. Pfeiffenberger, Sylvia. "Art Below the Border." This Month at Duke  (December, 2009).
  2. S. Aravamudan, J. Gonzalez, P. Lasch, A. Maillet, W. Mignolo, P. Sigal. Black Mirror/Espejo Negro. Franklin Humanities Institute (Duke), Luxe Gallery (NY) & Joan Mitchell Foundation (NY), (Fall, 2009).
  3. P. Lasch. Tanta Cerca Tan Cerquita.  edited by Eds. Grace Quintanilla & Mariana DelgadoCentro Nacional de las Artes, (Spring, 2009).
  4. Cortes, Alejandro. "El arte siempre va con la política." Que Pasa Triangle  (2009).
  5. Greenberg, Blue. "Triangle's ten best art exhibitions of 2008." The Herald-Sun  (December, 2008).

Selected Exhibitions

  1. (solo exhibition) Four Works by Pedro Lasch, March 7 - April 18, 2009, Galerie of Marseille, Marseille, France    
  2. (solo exhibition) Latino/a America: The New York & North Carolina Suites, January 16 – February 28, 2009, Branch Gallery, Durham, NC    
  3. (solo exhibition) Black Mirror / Espejo Negro: A Museum Installation by Pedro Lasch, May 22, 2008-Jan 18, 2009, Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC    
  4. (solo exhibition) Black Mirror / Espejo Negro: Three Projects by Pedro Lasch, . October 12 – November 9, 2008, LUXE Gallery, New York    
  5. (solo exhibition) El Sur Comes South with Guest Sonidero/DJ Groups & Los Artistas Collective, March 7 – April 1, 2008, The Arts Center, Carrboro, NC. March 7 – April 1, 2008    
  6. (solo exhibition) Open Routines, March 12, 2006 - July 09, 2006, Queens Museum of Art, New York    
  7. An Atlas, February 5- March 12, 2008, Redhouse Arts Center, Syracuse, NY    
  8. An Atlas, April 25-June 7, 2008, The Sanctuary for Independent Media
Troy, NY
    
  9. An Atlas, March 25-May 6, 2008, Dowd Fine Art Gallery, SUNY Cortland
Cortland, NY    
  10. An Atlas, October 29- December 2, 2008, Art Gallery of the College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ    
  11. An Atlas, une 20-July 8, 2008, Skol Art Centre
Montreal, Canada
    
  12. Artist Archive: Beyond Boundaries – mapping currents for the 3rd Guangzhou Triennial, a satellite net project to Farewell to Post-Colonialism: 3rd Guangzhou Triennial, ongoing, 2008, People's Republic of China    
  13. Beauty is in the Street, January 11 - February 16, 2008, Bronx River Art Center, New York, NY    
  14. Caras Vemos, Corazones No Sabemos (Faces We See, Hearts We Do Not Know): The Human Landscape of Mexican Migration to the United States, April 24 – July 13, 2008, Haggerty Museum, WI    
  15. Caras Vemos, Corazones No Sabemos (Faces We See, Hearts We Do Not Know): The Human Landscape of Mexican Migration to the United States, October 5 - December 28, 2008, Fowler Museum of Art, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA    
  16. Eligible Traffic, March 6 - April 5, 2008, Trinity University Art Gallery, San Antonio, TX    
  17. Singular, January 11 - February 9, 2008, LUXE Gallery, New York, NY    
  18. What Keeps Mankind Alive? and Continental Drift, November 26 – 30, 2008, Galerija Nova, Zagreb, Croatia    
  19. An Atlas, November 28, 2007 - January 19, 2008, Gallery 400, University of Illinois/Chicago, IL    
  20. Subcomandancia (Fran Ilich), October 20, 2007, Centro Arte Alameda, Mexico City    
  21. Transitio 2007: International Festival of Electronic Arts & Transnational Communities (Mexico-US Foundation), October 19, 2007 - October 20, 2007, Centro Nacional de las Artes & Centro Cultural Lagunilla-Tepito-Peralvillo, Mexico City, Mexico.    
  22. An Atlas, September 26, 2007 - October 28, 2007, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA    
  23. The FM Ferry Experiment, September 14, 2007 - September 19, 2007, Staten Island Ferry, New York, NY.    
  24. All the Way, September 06, 2007 - September 30, 2007, LUXE Gallery, New York, NY.    
  25. An Atlas, July 06, 2007 - July 15, 2007, Firehouse 13, Providence, RI    
  26. Beauty is in the Street, May 09, 2007 - June 10, 2007, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.    
  27. Promesas y Esperanzas del Siglo XXI. 'El Gobierno del Cambio' y el Éxodo Mexicano a los Estados Unidos 2000-2006 (Promises and Hopes of the 21st Century: The 'Government of Change' and the Mexican Exodus to the United States 2000-2006), April 17, 2007 - May 20, 2007, The International Center in New York    
  28. EdlA (Evolution de l’Art), March 21, 2007 - April 22, 2007, Priestor for Contemporary Art, Slovakia.    
  29. The Nightly News, January 13, 2007 - February 10, 2007, LUXE Gallery, New York, NY.    
  30. Primitivism Revisited, December 15, 2006 - January 27, 2007, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY    
  31. Empathetic, November 8, 2006 - February 24, 2007, Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia    
  32. Civic Performance, November 01, 2006 - December 09, 2006, Staller Art Gallery, Stony Brook, N.Y.    
  33. The Last Chapter_Trace Route: Remapping Global Cities, Gwangju Biennial 2006, September 08, 2006 - November 11, 2006, Biennale Hall, Gwangju City, South Korea    
  34. Caras Vemos, Corazones No Sabemos (Faces We See, Hearts We Do Not Know): The Human Landscape of Mexican Migration to the United States, September 03, 2006 - November 12, 2006, Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, IN    
  35. Public Moment: Artist Forum International (AFI), Section: Justice, Collective Expectations, Collective Potentials, August 19, 2006 - September 17, 2006, INSA Art Space and various other locations, Seoul, South Korea    
  36. Propia Vision/Our Vision, July 21, 2006 - September 17, 2006, Queens Museum of Art, New York    
  37. 10th International Festival of Video/Arte/Electronica/10mo Festival Internacional de Video/Arte Electronica (VAE10), June 08, 2006 - July 08, 2006, Lima, Peru    
  38. Propia vision, April 17, 2006 - May 11, 2006, The International Center in New York,Inc., New York    
  39. When Artists Say We, March 08, 2006 - April 29, 2006, Artists Space, New York    
  40. Patriot, 2005, The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD    
  41. Solidarity Unlimited, 2005, Rum 46, Aarhus, Denmark    
  42. Version>05 Invincible Desire, 2005, (NFO Expo), Zhou B. Center, Chicago, IL    
  43. Borderhack 2005, 2005, Playas Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico    
  44. CounterCampus (Part IV of "Cram Sessions" Exhibition Series), 2005, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD    
  45. Land(e)scaping, 2005, Agripas 12 Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel    
  46. Response, 2005, Morlan Gallery, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY    
  47. Statements on the Mask, 2005, (solo art action) Polvo Gallery, Chicago, IL    
  48. The 2005 Juried Show, 2005, Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA    
  49. The 2005 Monique Beudert Project, 2005, Royal College of Art, London    
  50. The Post-Industrial Carnival, 2005, Flight 19, Union Station Baggage Building, Tampa, FL    
  51. 24/7, 2004, Contemporary Art Center (CAC), Vilnius, Lithuania    
  52. Artists' Books, 2004, Baltic: The Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England    
  53. Brewster 2003, 2004, a site-specific contemporary art event, Brewster, NY    
  54. Get Rid of Yourself, 2004, ACC Gallery, Weimar and Stiftung Federkiel, Leipzig, Germany    
  55. Globalizacion, Cultura y Resistencia, 2004, Casa Lamm, Mexico City    
  56. Go, Liquidacion Total, 2004, Madrid, Spain    
  57. How Latitudes Become Form (Translocal Channel), 2004, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN    
  58. Inscribing the Temporal, 2004, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria    
  59. Radiopolyphony, 2004, The Thing & Diapason Gallery, New York    
  60. 252, 2004, (site-specific commissioned work), Dublin, Ireland    
  61. Home Fronts (SENI: Art & the Contemporary), 2004, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore    
  62. Open Studio Exhibition--Three Projects: A Proposal for the Zocalo, Naturalizations, Tianguis Transnacional, 2004, Bolivar 109, Mexico City    
  63. Social Capital, 2004, Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program Exhibition, Art Gallery of The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York    
  64. The Big Nothing, 2004, Mutter Museum, Phildelphia, PA    
  65. The Interventionists, 2004, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA    
  66. The Net of Two Tongues (La Red de Dos Lenguas), 2004, Queens Museum of Art, New York    
  67. 16 Beaver Lunch Time Series (10 monthly events), 2002, 16 Beaver Group, New York    
  68. Borderhack 2.0, 2001, Playas Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico    
  69. Collaborative/MODE (AccessZONE 0.2), 2001, Bronx Museum, New York    
  70. GroundZero:01, 2001, 129 Lafayette Street, New York    
  71. not left unsaid: Closing the School of the Americas, 2000, ABC No Rio, New York    
  72. Change of Address, 1999, Houghton Gallery, Cooper Union, New York    
  73. How do we want to be governed? V.1.0 CRIC Centre de reflexion sur l'image et ses contextes and Ecole Cantonal de Art d'Valais, Halle Carrosserie, Route de l'ancien Sierre 11, May 04, 2006 - June 17, 2006, Sierre, Switzerland    
  74. An Atlas, September 23-October 18, 2008, Gallery of Global Education Center at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill & Golden Belt Arts in Durham, NC    
  75. Travesías, sueños y fronteras: Obra plástica de Miho Hagino, Diego Medina y Pedro Lasch, October 05, 2006 - October 07, 2006, In coordination with '3rd International Congress on Migration', CIESAS Occidente. Gran Meliá, Mexico City, Mexico    
Selected Invited Lectures

  1. Tianguis Transnacional: Indigenous Migrancy & Migrant Indigeneity (Slide talk & Naturalizations workshop) for What Keeps Mankind Alive? and Continental Drift Seminar, November 30, 2008, Galerija Nova, Zagreb, Croatia    
  2. Latino/a Culture & Its Current Impact (Keynote Address), Diamante Awards & Latino Gala Event, October 18, 2008, Marriott-Convention Center, Durham, NC    
  3. LATINO/A AMERICA & Jacob Lawrence’s Migrations Series (Slide Talk) for Panel: Epics of Black and Brown: A Public Panel on the Representation, Culture and Experience of African American and Latino/a Migrations. Participants: Harry Harrison, Claudia Milian, October 2, 2008, Golden Belt Arts, Durham, NC    
  4. Lacanian Analysis & the Naturalizations Project (Special Workshop) in relation to The Screams of Silence: Depression and Other Maladies of Modern Times, a visiting lecture by Alejandro Salamonovitz, PhD, International Exchange Program, September 20, 2008, North Carolina Psychoanalytic Foundation & Lucy Daniels Foundation, Durham, NC    
  5. "El Greco to Velazquez" & "Black Mirror/Espejo Negro," Workshop #1 for NC Teachers' Open House, September 11, 2008, Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC    
  6. Geography Colloquium. Participants: Jeremy Crampton, Lize Mogel, John Krygier, Denis Wood, Pedro Lasch, September 5, 2008, Global Education Center, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC    
  7. General co-organizer, moderator and workshop leader for Transnational Communities, 4th Section of the Symposium for “Transitio 2007: International Festival of Electronic Arts.” Panelists & presenters: Néstor García Canclini, Diana McCarty, Fran Ilich, Ale, October 19 & 20, Mexico-US Foundation, Centro Nacional de las Artes & Centro Cultural Lagunilla-Tepito-Peralvillo, Mexico City, Mexico    
  8. Games, Non-Habitual Habit, and Temporal Rearrangements & Naturalizations Workshop, August 11, 2007, Visiting Lecture Series, Elsewhere Collaborative Space. Greensboro, NC.    
  9. Special Artist Tour of Beauty is in the Street Exhibition, May 10, 2007, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.    
  10. LATINO/A AMERICA Mapping Workshop, April 27, 2007, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.    
  11. Games, Non-Habitual Habit, and Temporal Rearrangements, April 26, 2007, Center for Latino Arts and Culture, 122 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ.    
  12. Legality & Legitimacy (Keynote Address), April 14, 2007, ). 1st NC Latino Arts and Culture Summit, National Council for Latino Arts & Culture (NALAC), Page Walker Arts & History Center, Cary, NC.    
  13. La Virgen más… A conversation with Jean Franco and Renato Rosaldo, with story-telling by Pedro Lasch. Introduction by Alyshia Galvez and Mary Louise Pratt., April 6, 2007, “Vírgenes Viajeras/Travelling Virgins Mini-conference,” New York University Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, and the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, King Juan Carlos Center, New York, NY.    
  14. (Why) Are We Latino/as? (Lecture) & Naturalizations Workshop, March 21, 2007, El Centro Hispano, Durham, NC.    
  15. Games, Non-Habitual Habit, and Temporal Rearrangements, February 22, 2007, Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Department of Art Theory & Practice, Northwestern University, Evanston/Chicago, IL    
  16. La Naturalización y Otros Mitos del Nacionalismo, October 07, 2006, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico    
  17. Tácticas Culturales Migratorias, October 6, 2006, Third International Congress on Migration, CIESAS Occidente, Mexico City, Mexico    
  18. Naturalizations and other experiential displacements, September 26, 2006, The Center for the Humanities, Temple University, Philadelphia    
  19. Games, Non-Habitual Habits, and Temporary Rearrangements, September 25, 2006, Critical Dialogues Lecture Series. Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia    
  20. What Are We Before We Are Naturalized?, August 31, 2006, Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, IN    
  21. Between Us: Experimental Seminar, August 18, 2006, INSA Art Space, Seoul, DMZ, and various locations in South Korea    
  22. El Museo y la Migración / The Museum and Immigration, July 8, 2006, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York    
  23. Between US: Faces and Borders, June 26, 2006, INSA Art Space, Seoul, Republic of Korea    
  24. Open Routines, May 12, 2006, King Juan Carlos Center, New York University, New York    
  25. Dances and Theaters of Everyday Life, May 05, 2006, Queens Museum of Art, NY    
  26. Second Sonidero Gathering (with Tony Neri and Angel Nevarez), April 22, 2006, Queens Museum of Art, NY    
  27. The Book of Mirrors; Open Routines; Maximiliano, April 21, 2006, Queens Museum of Art, NY    
  28. First Sonidero Gathering (with Javier Juarez & Diego Medina), March 18, 2006, Queens Museum of Art, NY    
  29. Open Routines; Maximiliano;Statements on the Mask, March 12, 2006, Queens Museum of Art, NY    
  30. Move Your Ask (with Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri), November 5, 2005, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, ML    
  31. Media Defacements, multimedia presentation; and Divided States Tour (with Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri), February 20, 2005, Rum46, Aarhus, Denmark    
Selected Public Lectures

  1. Panel on Black Mirror/Espejo Negro & special artist tour. Panelists: Jennifer Gonzalez, Walter Mignolo, Peter Sigal, Arnaud Maillet, Pedro Lasch., November 22, 2008, Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC.    
  2. Panel on Latino Arts & Culture & Special artist tours of the exhibition. Panelists: María DeGuzmán, Mary Regan, Mike Muñoz, Rodrigo Dorfman, Pedro Lasch. Moderator: Lizette Cruz-Watko, June 7, 2008, Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC.    
  3. Migrations Panel. Panelists: Thavisouk Phrasavath, Lourdes Portillo, Gordon Quinn, Alex Rivera, Gita Saedi, and Renee Tajima-Peña. Pedro Lasch (moderator), April 5, 2008, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Durham Arts Center — PSI Theater    
  4. Encuentro Sonidero (Full-day Sonidero Event: Panel & Workshop & DJ Bash/Dance). Participants: Juanito Colombia El Travieso, Catherine Ragland, Jaime Castillo, Raul Perez - Cumbiambero, Kelley Tatro, Joaguin Huerta - Super Dengue, Efrain Perez, Pedro Lasch, March 29, 2008, Arts Center, Carrboro, NC.    
  5. Indigenous Immigrants, November 04, 2006, 16Beaver Space, New York    
  6. Avantgarde Folklore, July 28, 2006, 2006 Conference of the Tepoztlán Institute for the Transnational History of the Americas, Tepoztlán, Mexico    
  7. Rutinas Abiertas y el Movimiento Inmigrante, May 14, 2006, Blessed Sacrament Auditorium, Jackson Heights, New York    
  8. Art, Story-Telling, and the Five Senses, March 03, 2006, Navigating the Global American South Conference, UNC-Chapel Hill    
  9. Naturalizations and Indigenous Culture, February 11, 2006, The 2006 Carolina and Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies Conference    
  10. What Are We Before We Are Naturalized? & Statements on the Mask, May 1, 2005, Polvo Gallery, Chicago    
  11. Counter-Cartographies & Other 16 Beaver Projects, April 30, 2005, Zhou B. Center, Chicago, IL    
  12. Work Selections by Pedro Lasch, February 20, 2004, 16 Beaver Space, New York    
Selected Other

  1. Roundtable: Art and the US-Mexico Border, September 1, 2006, Institute for Latino Studies, Notre Dame University, Notre Dame    
  2. Grand Sonidero Bash, June 17, 2006, Queens Museum of Art, New York    
 

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