First slide presentation of the Under the Same Sun exhibition.

1. “WHAT AN AMERICAN
LOOKS LIKE”
Images!!

2. Curator Pablo León de la Barra
Investigates Contemporary Art
by Latin American of Artists from 16 Countries
THE GUGGENHE IM
Puerto Rico
Peru
Venezuela
Cuba
Germany
Mexico
Panama
Ecuador
Brazil
Columbia
Guatemala
Costa Rica
Bolivia
Argentina
Chile
USA
http://www.guggenheim.org/guggenheim-foundation/collaborations/map/latinamerica

3. 1. LIGHTS
2. Advertisements
3. Tourists!!
4. contructions
5. Traffic
6. Bad art!!
7. Homeless people
8. crowded.
9. Mcdonalds (a big one)
10. Shops for tourists who don’t know anything
11. Fake cell phones that may be real
12. People taking pictures with cameras
13. Police cameras for “security”
14. People go here often
P3
WHO HAS BEEN TO TIME’S SQUARE?
Describe it.
to consume
because it’s in the movies
for tourist attractions like M&M world! YUMMM and Wax museum, ripley’s
because tour busses dropoff/pick up here
Theater!
New year’s eve shenanigans!
LOTS OF TRAIN CONNECTIONS

4. P8
WHO HAS BEEN TO TIME’S SQUARE?
Describe it.
1. Mad stores
2. Mad lights
3. Mad tall buildings
4. Mad tourists=mad expensive
5. There is a lot of noise…..oh my!
Lots of people…..tourists looking up at the buildings…and homeless
individuals, those people in the costumes (elmo, batman, the naked
cowboys, naked painted people. Europeans, and earthlings.
Annoying person that’s standing the middle of the street TAKING A FREAKIN’
SELFIE LIKE A DUMMY!
TRAFFIC (BIKES, TAXIS, PEOPLE, RODENTS, FOOD,

5. Join Noguchi’s Teen
Advisory Board (TAB), a free
after-school program for
high school students. TAB
members may receive
community service and/or
internship credit for their
participation in this program.
TAB meets every
Wednesday from 4:30-
6:30pm.
November 5, -May 27, 2015.
http://www.noguchi.org/pro
grams/education/teens

6. ALFREDO JAAR
A Logo For Ameica
1987
Digital color Video
In the late 1980’s , Jaar
created an animation
that appeared on an
electronic billboard in
Times Square.
This was during a time
when Time’s Square
was not so tourist
friendly…but still
attracted a large
number of locals. His
piece of artwork
appeared alongside
other scheduled
advertisements over
the course of two
weeks.

7. ALFREDO
JAAR
A Logo For Ameica
1987
Digital color Video

8. ALFREDO
JAAR
This work
challenges the
visual concept of
what “America” is.
This work faces the
ethnocentrism that
is found throughout
the culture of the
United States of
America.
A Logo For Ameica
1987
Digital color Video

9. Jaar’s work bears witness to
military conflicts, political
corruption, and imbalances
of power between
industrialized and
developing nations.
Subjects addressed in his
work include the holocaust
in Rwanda, gold mining in
Brazil, toxic pollution in
Nigeria, and issues related
to the border between
Mexico and the United
States.
La Nube / The Cloud
2000
Public Intervention
Tijuana, Mexico-San Diego, USA Border

10. LA NUBE / THE CLOUD
2000
PUBLIC INTERVENTION
TIJUANA, MEXICO-SAN DIEGO, USA
BORDER
This event/performance took place at
the San Diego/Tijuana border at the
Valle Del Matador (Valley of Death), an
ominous but telling site.
This work involved balloons and music,
items associated with festivity and
frivolity…though there is little to
celebrate in this context.
Jaar placed a cellist on the US side of
the border and the balloons, 3,000 of
them — in homage to the number of
victims of border crossing — on the
Mexican side. Contradictions
abounded as it became clear that
balloons and music are free from any
notion of borders and can travel
where people cannot.

11. THE SKOGHALL MUSEUM
2000
PAPER, WOOD, FIRE
“I strongly believe
that artists are
thinkers, as
opposed to object
makers. My working
process is 99%
thinking, and 1%
making. That
thinking process is
at the core of what
I do.”

12. THE SKOGHALL MUSEUM
2000
PAPER, WOOD, FIRE
“I created an
exhibition space for
twenty-four hours and
then burned it away I
wanted to offer a
glimpse of what
contemporary art is
and what it can do in
a community. Then by
“disappearing” it in
such a spectacular
way, I hoped to
reveal its absence”.

13. ALFREDO
JAAR
One Million Finnish Passports
1995
Finnish passports

14. ALFREDO JAAR
One Million Finnish Passports
1995
Finnish passports
Finland has a historically strict
immigration policy. As
stubborn nationalists they
accept only a tiny fraction of
the citizenship applications
they receive, far less than
other European nations.
Observing this, Jaar managed
to get 1 million Finnish
passports printed up to
represent the number of
people who should have been
nationalized as Finnish citizens
but weren’t.

15. ALFREDO JAAR
Finland is a country that
only has 5.4 million
people (compared to
the 8.4 that live in NYC).
Only 5.5% of the
population in Finland
was born in another
country, compared to
the USA, where almost
12% are born in another
country.
One Million Finnish Passports
1995
Finnish passports

16. ALFREDO JAAR The work was considered to be so
controversial by the Finnish
government that it was placed
behind a bulletproof glass wall.

17. ALFREDO JAAR
…and every passport was
incinerated in after the exhibition
was finished.

18. WHAT DO YOU THINK MOTIVATED
THIS ARTIST TO MAKE THIS? P3
Artist Intentions
1.
2.
3.
4.

19. WHAT DO YOU THINK MOTIVATED
THIS ARTIST TO MAKE THIS? P8
Artist Intentions
1.
2.
3.
4.

20. ALFREDO
JAAR
“As I never studied art, it is a fascinating process to
ascertain what communicates with a viewer, how it
communicates and with whom it communicates.
I never forget that communication does not mean
to send out a message; it means to receive an
answer.
If there is no answer, there is no communication.”

21. SO WHAT’S YOU’RE
ANSWER TO ALFREDO
JAAR?
P3
1. The point he’s trying to raise with his art revolves
around social issues….
2. These are issues that we don’t really pay attention
to…and it needs to be brought up to our attention.
3. He’s very hopeful
4. His work is helpful…people are able to see the
flaws in the issues he brings up in his work. YOU NEED
TO SEE THE FLAWS TO MAKE A CHANGE.
JOE: The MTA ANTHONY: Busses are always
crowded….and you can’t feel the wind.
Gissell: homelessness.


22. SO WHAT’S YOU’RE
ANSWER TO ALFREDO
JAAR?
P8
1. Answers can be built upon one another…like a
CONVERSATION.
2. Knows his work is controversial, and will create a
conversation….it’s not just something on the wall.
3. Forces people to take a side in a debate.
4. Stop polluting my planet.
5. IT’S IN YOUR FACE! Makes you ask questions.
6. Good advertiser for his work….it’s disposable but
people still will pay to see it….but is he just trying to
make money?

23. Every night from 11:57pm-Midnight
ALFREDO JAAR #MIDNIGHTMOMENT
A Logo For Ameica
1987
Digital color Video

24. HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT
DUE MONDAY
As teenagers we’re often told what to do and what
not to do. Much of our actions are controlled or
censored by adults.
If you could say anything you wanted to anyone you
wanted…and be COMPLETELY UNCENSORED…what
would you say?
Write a 1-minute speech…
…without any censorship whatsoever.

25. TANIA BRUGUERA
Tatlin’s Whisper #6 (Havana Version)
2009, Color video

26. TANIA
BRUGUERA
In a performance at the 2009
Havana Biennial, Tania
Bruguera provided temporary
platform for the free speech
normally denied in Cuba.
Members of the audience were
invited to take the stage and
speak uncensored for one
minute, after which time they
were escorted away by two
actors in military uniforms.
Tatlin’s Whisper #6 (Havana Version)
2009, Color video

27. TANIA BRUGUERA
Tatlin’s Whisper #6 (Havana Version)
2009, Color video
A white dove was
placed on each
speaker’s shoulder in
allusion to the one that
landed on Fidel Castro
during his first speech in
Havana after the
triumph of the 1959
revolution.

28. LET’S DO THIS.

29. VLADIMIR TATLIN
WHO THE PIECE IS NAMED AFTER
• Was a portrait painter for
a long time, turned to
sculpture/architecture
• Favored Geometric forms
• Felt that all art should
have a purpose.
Monument to the Third
International
Planned: 1919 after Bolshevik
revolution
Built: Never.

30. VLADIMIR TATLIN
Monument to the Third International
Planned: 1919 after Bolshevik revolution
Built: Never.
This whole structure was to be built
on an rotating axis running up the
center, where Cube at the base
would make a full rotation once a
year, the pyramid in the middle
would rotate once a month, and
the cylinder would rotate once a
day
Furthermore, the cube would house
lectures and legislative needs,
The pyramid was for executive
functions and…
the Cylinder was for publications
and radio information…including a
broadcast screen that would
display messages to the public.

31. OTHER WORKS BY
TANIA
BRUGUERA
The Burden of Guilt 1997-1999
Decapitated lamb, rope, water, salt,
Cuban Soil

32. TANIA
BRUGUERA
Immigrant
Movement
International
Ongoing
Socially Engaged
Artwork
108-59 Roosevelt
Avenue
Queens, NY
11368
 What struggles to immigrants face?
Who represents immigrants politically?

33. TANIA
BRUGUERA
Immigrant
Movement
International
Ongoing
Socially Engaged
Artwork
108-59 Roosevelt
Avenue
Queens, NY
11368
Opened in 2011 in Corona, Queens
Engages local communities, social
services, and elected officials to reform
immigration laws.

34. TANIA BRUGUERA
“I’ve been inspired by anything
that is an attempt to
implement Utopian ideas.
Restrictions also trigger me,
especially when someone says,
“No, it is not possible.”
Lately, the revolution in the
Middle East (Tunisia, Egypt,
Bahrain, Yemen, Algeria) has
had a great impact on me.
These events were some of the
first manifestations, together
with WikiLeaks, of significant
revolutionary actions in the 21st
century.”

35. WHAT ABOUT YOU?? P8
How do you react when
someone says
“No, it is not possible.” ?
1. Gabriel: NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE.
2. JONO: IF THERE’S A WILL, THERE’S A WAY.
3. JULY: Okay fine. You’re not worth arguing with….stupid head.
4. KD: Makes me wanna try harder to prove them wrong.
5. CHELLEY: OH REALLY NOW? HAVE YOOOOOUUUU TRIED?
6. G-THANG: Open your mind bro, expand your imagination.
7. RY-GUY: makes me wanna question them to ask WHY it’s not
possible.
8. “it MAY be possible.

36. WHAT ABOUT YOU?? P3
How do you react when
someone says
“No, it is not possible.” ?
1. Motivates you even MOAR!!!! MOAR MOAR!
2. It may be impossible for “you” but not for me!
3. Peeps be mad lazy
Or like vania’s braces (bodily control)
4. You try to prove them wrong.
5. ….sigh…admit defeat. *cries*
6. Makes you question whether or not it actually IS
Possible.
Changing the world
Goin’ to mars!
Being the next Kobe (or LeBron…gametime…..now. Go.
GAMETIME!

37. ABOUT TANIA BRUGUERA
P3
TANIA BRUGUERA tries to activate viewers’ interest by
recontextualizing powerful images.
Her artwork draws reference from significant social and political
events. She is also interested in the widespread apathy that has
followed in the wake of several failed social revolutions. (think of
#occupywallst )
Define these words
Apathy: sounds like “sympathy” or “empathy”
No feelings at all….a lack of emotion…..”I don’t care”
Context: background info on a topic.
This answers “why” something is the way it is.
Recontextualize: to change how something is viewed by people. To change
the background on something.

38. ABOUT TANIA BRUGUERA
P8
TANIA BRUGUERA tries to activate viewers’ interest by
recontextualizing powerful images.
Her artwork draws reference from significant social and political
events. She is also interested in the widespread apathy that has
followed in the wake of several failed social revolutions. (think of
#occupywallst )
Define these words
Apathy: Lack of emotion or not caring
Context: Background info on an issue….OR….the
surrounding issues around a given thing.
Recontextualize:
To CHANGE the way people perceive things. People may
take a new stance on issues
Tatlin’s Whisper #6 (Havana Version)
2009, Color video

39. DONNA CONLON & JONATHAN HARKER
Drinking Song
2011
Digital Color video with sound

40. DONNA
CONLON &
JONATHAN
HARKER
Are there any shared
histories between the
USA and Panama?
P8
1. AMERICA BUILT A CANAL TO CONNECT THE EAST AND WEST SIIIIIDES OF AMERICA
2. THE USA “ENCOURAGED” PANAMANIAN INDEPENDENCE
3. NORIEGA SCANDAL

41. DONNA
CONLON &
JONATHAN
HARKER
Are there any shared
histories between the
USA and Panama?
1. USA building a canall.
2. Columbia once was in charge of parts of “Panama”
P3

42. A MAN A PLAN A CANAL PANAMA
First thought
up by Charles
V (the Holy
Roman
Emperor and
King of Spain)
in 1534.
The French
tried to do it
in the late
1800’s but
MALARIA
Then the USA
took control
in 1904 and
finished it a
decade later.

43. DONNA CONLON
& JONATHAN
HARKER
Drinking Song
2011
Digital Color video with sound
What’s the relationship between the USA national anthem and Panamanian Beer?
1.
2.
3.
4.
P3

44. JONATHAN HARKER
Tocumen
2005 Born in Quito, Ecuador
Lives and works in Panama City, Panama

45. JONATHAN
HARKER
Tocumen
2005
The postcard thing started out as a
very personal project: I wanted to
keep in touch with a woman that had
gone far away. In those days, we
travelled around the city taking
photographs for Mogo magazine, and
we began to see things with new eyes,
a little like tourists.
Almost all the photos were taken by
other people: strangers on the street,
accomplished artists, housemaids, or
friends. The slogans and logotypes
were inspired by the official discourse
used to promote Panama in and
outside of its borders.
The guy in the photos is the part of me
that still feels like a foreigner in his own
country, and that fails to understand
what that whole “his own country” stuff
is really about.

46. JONATHAN HARKER
Isla Grande
2002

47. JONATHAN HARKER
Ancon
2002

48. JONATHAN HARKER
Marbella
2004

49. JONATHAN HARKER
Transîstmica
2002

50. JONATHAN HARKER
The reality around us is socially
constructed. The place where we live,
history, and our own personal and
collective identity are products of a
turbulent process of selecting and
combining governed mainly by
biased interests and ideologies which
are full of contradictions.
We seek to comfort ourselves with
stories that have a beginning, a
middle and an end, in which all things
are clear and all the pieces fit. But life
is not this way, and not all stories are
designed to be like this.
Making art is to tell stories differently.
La realidad que nos rodea es algo
construido socialmente. El lugar donde
vivimos, la historia, y nuestra misma
identidad personal o colectiva son
productos de un accidentado proceso
de selección y combinación regido
principalmente por intereses
parcializados e ideologías repletas de
contradicciones.
Buscamos reconfortarnos con historias
que tienen un principio, un medio y un
final, en las cuales todas las cosas son
claras, y todas las piezas encajan. Pero
la vida no es así, y no todas las historias
tienen por que serlo.
Hacer arte es contar historias de otra
manera.

51. DONNA CONLON
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Lives and works in Panama City,
Panama
Coexistence Photos
2008
Photographs of leaf-cutter ants carrying
artificial leaves painted as flags.

52. DONNA CONLON
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Lives and works in Panama City,
Panama
Coexistence Photos
2008
Photographs of leaf-cutter ants carrying
artificial leaves painted as flags.

53. DONNA CONLON
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Lives and works in Panama City,
Panama
Coexistence Photos
2008
Photographs of leaf-cutter ants carrying
artificial leaves painted as flags.

54. DONNA
CONLON
Trash Trees
2004
A series of photographs of trees encountered with trash placed in them.
Panama City, Panamá.

55. DONNA
CONLON
Trash Trees
2004
A series of photographs of trees encountered with trash placed in them.
Panama City, Panamá.

56. DONNA CONLON
Trash Trees
2004
A series of photographs of trees encountered with trash placed in them.
Panama City, Panamá.

57. DONNA CONLON
Similar to Drinking Song, the Trash Trees
series shows how brands are integrated
into our “natural” environment.
Consumer products have woven
themselves into our daily existence in
more than just one way. They continue
to pop up and surprise us in all of the
locations we wander into.
As an Artist Duo, they examine
contradictions in the construction of
Panamanian national identity, as well as
political and societal disparities
between Central America and the
United States.
Conspicuous
Consumption

58. DONNA CONLON
& JONATHAN
HARKER
Drinking Song
2011
Digital Color video with sound
What’s the relationship between the USA national anthem and Panamanian Beer?
1.
2.
3.
4.
P8

59. RE: PRESENTATION
Donna Conlon and Jonathan Harker’s work deals with how countries are represented in pop culture (popular
media)
Do Now: Write a list of countries and jot down how you think they’re represented. Start with these countries:
Japan – They love tech and innovation…and they sell it too! Nuclear pollution.
DA EARTHQUAAAAKE IN Fukushima. Karaoke singing! J-POP is a thing that
people listen to especially HOO-LYO. Fetishes?
Japanese commercials are mad bizarre. Suicide rate is among the highest on
the planet. Anime!
Spain – running with the bulls….bullfighting. Cataluña trying to secede from
spain. Flamenco. Francisco Franco…..maybe we don’t learn about him…
Mad raw steaks. Neo Nazis….they’re a thing. 56%youth are jobless. 18-30 y/o
Gypsy culture is comin’ back!
Brazil – FúTBOL!! 2016 Olympics. Gang violence. LOST THE WORLD CUP SO BAD.
FAVELAS (extreme poverty….”ghetto”) complicated “recylcing” program
Riots…THE RIO STATUE….CHRISTO EL Redentor! The Amazon. Carnival
Honduras- La Mara – mad dangerous gang. Highest murder rate in the world.
Greece – Rocky white beaches. Philosophy, white togas, economic crises,
LAMB.
Greek economy tanked the Euro. “Neo-nazis”

60. RE: PRESENTATION
Donna Conlon and Jonathan Harker’s work deals with how countries are represented in pop culture (popular
media)
Do Now: Write a list of countries and jot down how you think they’re represented. Start with these countries:
Japan – origin of sushi, whole lotta anime, gaming industry, martial arts.
Wacky commercials
Racism that exists within the country. Issues with pollution (radioactive
pollution), very high suicide rate
Spain – running of the bulls, MADRID FUTBOL WHAT!, conquistadores,
flamenco, Tomato throwing festival
Protests against the government, rampant poverty, 56% youth employed.
Brazil – Christo the Redeemer, favelas (ghetto), protests in the world cup,
beaches. STUNNING DEFEAT IN WORLD CUP, plastic surgery , FESTIVALS!
child prostitution, , protests in the world cup, Human trafficking, systemic
inequality,
Honduras – systematic inequality, highest murder rate in the world, gang
violence,
Greece – Parthenon, worst economy in Europe, mythology
Rise of fascists.

61. OPENING ON
FRIDAY
NIGHT
Donna Conlon and
Jonathan Harker
Invisible Hands
Friday @6pm

62. MINERVA CUEVAS
P8
Have you heard this word? What does it mean to you?
1. A place where you buy clothes…..dresses, fancy shirts, pretty expensive
2. Children in Ecuador slaving(making) over clothes???
3. Seasonal clothing lthat looks like people going on vacation.
3.

63. MINERVA CUEVAS
1. COMFY UNDIES!
2. CLOTHING STORE/COMPANY AND THEY HAVE A TON OF OVERSEAS
FACTORIES? MAYBE?
3. EXPENSIVE
P3
Have you heard this word? What does it mean to you?

64. MINERVA CUEVAS P8
Typical Features of a “Banana Republic”
Income Inequality
Corrupt Alliance of Big Business and Big Government
High Incarceration Rate of Citizens
Torture used by Authorities
High Child Mortality Rate
Unchecked Police Corruption and an Ever-Expanding Police State
Issues with Hunger and Malnutrition
What Countries do you think are dealing with
these issues?
What countries dealt with these issues in the past?

65. MINERVA CUEVAS Del Montte—Bananeras
2003
Acrylic screenprint on wall

66. MINERVA CUEVAS Del Montte—Bananeras
2003
Acrylic screenprint on wall
Cuevas’ image is centered on the image of a banana plant over which she
places a modified version of of the “Fresh Del Monte Produce” logo. This
narrates a history of tension between major transnational banana companies
and various Latin American countries, Guatemala in particular.
The doubled letter in the
“Montte” modified brand
name refers to José Efrain
Ríos Montt, the military
president of Guatemala in
1982-3, who was
responsible for the
genocidal slaughter of the
indigenous Ixil ethnic
group.

67. http://www.bananalink.org.uk/content/where-bananas-
are-grown

68. MINERVA CUEVAS
Minerva Cuevas was born in
Mexico City, Mexico.
She studied at Escuela Nacional
de Artes Plásticas, Mexico City
in 1997.
Cuevas has been working as
an artist and activist since 1992,
utilizing video, stickers,
installation, radio, Internet,
public actions and print. The
tools are used and assembled
at Cuevas’s self-created
company Mejor Vida Corp.,
which is a fusion of art and
politics. The artist’s main interests
are homelessness, freedom,
information, corporate behavior
and advertising.

69. MINERVA
CUEVAS

70. MINERVA
CUEVAS

71. MINERVA
CUEVAS
Bordering on illegal
activities, and with the aid
of technology
indispensable in digital life,
Cueva distributes, for
instance, bar code
stickers, that can be used
for shopping at a reduced
rate, or student cards,
allowing for a reduced
entry fee at museums,
theaters, cinemas and
such. Also on offer are
ready-made subway
tickets, letters of
recommendation, as well
as other services. The
products can be obtain
free of charge via a
website.

72. Minerva Cuevas intervenes in an amusement park ride by
pasting the logos of multinational oil corporations onto
bumper-cars. Here she comments on recent energy politics
characterized by a permanent war among the petroleum
companies (referred to ironically by the artist through the
aimless bumping of electric cars) looking to control the
international markets with the ultimate goal of private profit.
MINERVA
CUEVAS
Dodgem
2002
Installation at
Mexico City
amusement park

73. LET’S SHARE SOME IDEAS!
Create a postcard for a country of your choosing.
The photo on the postcard must be generated by
YOU. NOT THEM INTERWEBS.
Think of a slogan for your postcard…and how you
choose to represent this country.
PHOTO DUE ON MONDAY 9/15
When we’ll be doing some photoshop work…
On a flash drive or emailed to yourself
You’ll need high resolution
images for this project.
Need a camera? Borrow
one from me!