Documentary Screening:

The Storm that Swept Mexico

A two hour documentary film of the gripping story of the Mexican revolution of 1910; its causes and its legacy

Thursday, November 18, 2010
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Digital Screening Theater
1422 Melnitz
Los Angeles, CA 90095

The Storm That Swept Mexico tells the story of the Mexican Revolution, the first major political and social revolution of the 20th century. The revolution not only changed the course of Mexican history, transforming economic and political power within the nation, but also profoundly impacted the relationships between Mexico, the U.S. and the rest of the world. Part 1 begins with the overthrow of dictator Porfirio Diaz in 1910 through ten bloody years of armed conflict. Part 2 tells the story of the legacy of the revolution and ends with the 1968 massacre at the Tlatelolco housing project in Mexico City.

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NEW RELEASE: Black Mirror/ Espejo Negro

Description

The provocative three-part project Black Mirror/Espejo Negro by the artist Pedro Lasch encompasses a museum installation, photographs of the installation, and this bilingual book, including many of the photos, the artist’s statement, and critical commentaries. The project began as an installation commissioned by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University to accompany the exhibition El Greco to Velázquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III. In a gallery adjacent to the exhibit of Spanish Golden Age masterpieces, Lasch placed black rectangular mirrors on the walls, each with an image of a Spanish Renaissance painting behind it. Pre-Columbian stone and ceramic figures, chosen by Lasch from the museum’s permanent collection of Meso-American art, stood on pedestals facing toward each mirror and away from visitors entering the room. Viewers were drawn into a meditation on colonialism and spectatorship when, on looking into the black mirrors, they saw the pre-Columbian figures, seventeenth and eighteenth-century Spanish priests and conquistadores, themselves, and the contemporary gallery environment. The book Black Mirror/Espejo Negro includes full-color reproductions of thirty-nine photographs of the installation, as well as the text that Lasch wrote to accompany it. In short essays, scholars reflect on Lasch’s work in relation to current debates in art history and visual studies, race discourse, pre-Columbian studies, postcolonial theory, and de-colonial thought.

Edición bilingüe: español-inglés

Este provocador proyecto del artista Pedro Lasch se titula Black Mirror/Espejo Negro y comprende tres partes, una instalación museística, una serie fotográfica basada en l