Pedro Lasch

Pedro Lasch

Community Liaison Pedro Lasch teaches in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies. He completed his B.A. in Fine Arts at The Cooper union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City. Pedro’s specialties include drawing, painting, and multimedia work, with a special focus on interdisciplinary practices that bridge art with other fields of knowledge. He is currently teaching two dimensional design and color theory, as well as a newly designed course on what he calls 'The Poverty of the Visual.' The latter course for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in various disciplines, specifically examines the relationship between art, visual culture and poverty as it has developed from the 1950s to the present. During 2006, Pedro’s work has been shown in eleven art exhibitions, including a solo exhibition entitled “Open Routines” at the Queens Museum of Art in New York, as well as a project about borders entitled "Between Us," created with the group 16Beaver for the Gwangju Biennial in South Korea. Recent publications by Pedro include “Una Propuesta Escultórica,” in Saber Ver (Segunda Época); a special publication with 16Beaver Group in relation to the exhibition Patriot, entitled Act Patriot Act, The Contemporary Museum; and “Naturalizations: Media Defacements” in Rethinking Marxism.

Pedro was born and raised in Mexico City, Mexico and his interest in community work stems from the sheer pleasure of working with others, as well as an on-going commitment to face the brutal inequality in the current world system, whatever country or town we may live in. Pedro served as Interim Director of the Latino/a Studies Initiative from 2005-06 and is a member of the Latina/o Studies Working Group at Duke.

Office Location: 220 Smith Warehouse
Email Address: pedro.lasch@duke.edu

Specialties:
Drawing
Installation Art
Latin American/Caribbean Art
New Media
Painting
Social Art Practice & Participatory Art
Visual Studies/Visual Culture

Education:
MFA Fine Art (Art Practice) - Graduated with Distinction, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, U.K., 2010
BFA - Visual Arts, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY, 1999

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
Linguistics
History & Philosophy of Science

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1. P. Lasch with S. Aravamudan, J. Gonzalez, A. Maillet, W. Mignolo, P. Sigal, Black Mirror/Espejo Negro by Pedro Lasch (Fall, 2010), Nasher Museum of Art and Franklin Humanities Institute. Distributed by Duke University Press [available here] .
  2. P. Lasch with 16Beaver Group, Iraq Questionnaire Answers, October Magazine no. No. 123 (Winter, 2008), pp. 149-160, MIT Press .
  3. P. Lasch, El color de la razón: racismo epistemológico y razón imperial, edited by Walter Mignolo, Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze, Paget Henry, Santiago Castro-Gómez, El desprendimiento: pensamiento crítico y opción descolonial no. 3 (Spring, 2008), pp. cover & p2, Argentina: Editorial Signo and GlobalArgentina: Editorial Signo & Durham: Globalization and the Humanities Project, Duke University .
  4. McKee, Yates, Contemporary Art & the Legacies of Democracy, in A Guide to Democracy in America (2008), pp. p 34-35, Creative Time Books .
  5. Molina Ramírez, Tania, Ser mixteco o purépecha ya no puede entenderse con una lógica territorial, La Jornada (México) (October 20, 2007) .
  6. De Acosta, Alejandro, Latino/a America: A Geophilosophy for Wanderers, in An Atlas of Radical Cartography, edited by Lize Mogel & Alexis Bhagat (2007), Los Angeles: Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press .
  7. G. Cardenas, Visualizing Mexican Migration to the United States, CMD Working Paper #06-04e, The Center for Migration and Development Working Paper Series (June, 2006), Princeton University .
  8. 16Beaver Group, Map of New ORDER Lines, edited by Kyunghwa Ahn, Journal BOL no. Issue #4 (2006), Seoul: BOL .
  9. 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, 2009), Centro Nacional de las Artes .
  10. 16 Beaver Group, Between US: Exhibition Notes and Documentation, in Fever Variations: Gwangju Biennale 2006 Catalogue, edited by Hong-hee Kim, vol. 2 (2006), pp. 168-169, Gwangju Biennale Foundation .
  11. P. Lasch, Naturalizations, in Caras Vemos, Corazones No Sabemos: Faces Seen, Hearts Unkown (Exhibitition Catalogue), edited by Amelia Malagamba (2006), pp. 66, Notre Dame: Snite Museum, University of Notre Dame .
  12. J. Beck, The Art of Memory and Navigation Across Asia, in Fever Variations: Gwangju Biennale 2006 Catalogue, edited by Hong-hee Kim, vol. 1 (2006), pp. 281-295, Gwangju Biennale Foundation .
  13. N. Thompson & G. Sholette, The Interventionists: User’s Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life (2004), pp. 111-112, Cambridge, MASS MoCA Publication & MIT Press .
  14. Greenberg, Blue, Triangle's ten best art exhibitions of 2008, The Herald-Sun (December 28, 2008) .
  15. Greenberg, Blue, At the Nasher, new life for an ancient collection, The Herald-Sun (June 22, 2008) .
  16. Broili, Susan, Exhibit combines art of two worlds in new statement, The Herald-Sun (June 7, 2008) .
  17. Cotter, Holland, PRIMITIVISM REVISITED: After the End of an Idea, The New York Times (January, 2007) .
  18. M. Rakowitz, Pedro Lasch’s Open Routines - Artists’ Artists Section, Art Forum (December, 2006) .
  19. C. Houser, Review of Pedro Lasch Solo Exhibition at Queens Museum of Art, Art Nexus no. 61 (June, 2006) .
  20. R. Beattie, Immigrant Art Exhibitions: Insights of Passage, New York York Times (May 19, 2006) .
  21. R. González Mello, Andamios Interiores, Curare: Espacio Crítico para las Artes no. 15 (1999), pp. 88-89 .