1996-1997-an experimental workshop for art and anthropology

   Theoretical Research on art My current research on art is focussed in a continuation of my usual semiotic theory approaches to art encompasing semiotic analysis of language, visual signs, semas, sememas, semantemas and visual icons with from semantique critique cultural analysis so from semiotic theory to cultural linguistic anthropology In that senses i am doing compendiums of a part of my art criticism proposing, developing and demonstrating how a scientific higly disciplinary knowledge of semiotic theory as the discipline is higly defined in the semiotic traditión, from Charles Sanders peirce to modern semiotic, barthes, eco, todorov, etc, might help in both analysing and interpreting but also understanding on the one hand language and on the hand the reconfiguration of culture, art and identity in complex societies, providing an exiting and deeper discusión of language in art in Texas, San Francisco, los ángeles and another usa cities as well as adding some of my collec...

  Abdel Hernández San Juan Semiotic theory and linguistic anthropology of art resume Writer, Sociologist, cultural anthropologist, art critic My research specifically focussed on art Stablished Living in Houston, Texas, as permanent resident since  1997 Curator positions 1994 -Curator of contemporary Venezuelan art and the issues of The Museum and the markets, Alejandro Otero Museum of visual art, coordinated by Vazco Zinetar and tahia Rivero, Caracas 1996 - guest lecturer of The Faculty of Classical and hispanic studies at rice University in his areas of semiotic theory, anthropology and theory of contemporary art, Houston, Texas Discussed Lecturer and publications 1996 - The posmodern work: Beyond the Intertextual. By Abdel Hernandez San Juan, Conference Lectured at the Fondren Library Lectures Auditorium as a guest of the faculty of classical and Hispanic studies in his area of research of semiotic, theory of art, anthropology, curator at the alejandro otero museum of visua...

1996 - The posmodern work: beyond the intertextual.  By abdel Hernández San juan  "The posmodern work", a theoretical paper/essay written by Abdel Hernández San Juan was lectured by him throught a 45 minutes conference read in person at the fondren library lectures auditorium as part in the meetings, dialogues and activities developed by abdel during his travel as guest theoretician writer and lecturer of the faculty of classical and hispánic studies at rice university to discuss his conjuntion of semiótic theory,  theory of contemporary art and anthropology. The paper lectured focussed in avoiding speculative generalizations on posmodernism seen as a social, económic or history diagnosis on modernity, to instead discuss that the idea of posmodernism must be regarded, framed, cutted, logically identify as certain under empirical experience as a matter of subjectivity, a subjectivity phenomenologically expressed at the level of the "configurational paradigms" on h...

    1997-An experimental workshop for art and anthropology By abdel Hernández San Juan and Surpik angelini An experimental workshop for art and anthropology was produced and directed by abdel Hernández San Juan and Surpik angelini in Caracas 1996, this workshop consisted in a modality of cultural production of a curatorial practice adressed to build 7  exhibits by a convocatorial method asking to the choiced participants to proposes an exhibit affording the issue of the relation between art and anthropology free to which the cultural production consisted about providing the participants theoretical análysis on currents social sciences, each participant was convocated to react with a higly sited proposal toward a dialogue. The experience have two precedents, a curatorial project of venezuelan contemporary art conceived by abdel as curator at mavao (Alejandro Otero museum of visual art), when the issue in question was to present exhibits on the relation between the high art...

   1999 -Ah Dzib Pízté Exhibit: a perspective from art critique By abdel Hernández San Juan This theoretical paper written by abdel Hernández San Juan in Chicago and lectured by him as a one hour conference at the faculty of sociology and anthropology of lake forest college lectures auditorium, discussed a semiótic theory análysis of the simbolism of the mask in posmodern sociocultural environments versus the simbolism of the face approaching from hermeneutic and semantique cultural análysis the correlations between doing an exhibit museographizing the anthropology of tourism as well presenting maya artesaníes for tourism many of it consisting in maya masks in a high art institute exhibit gallery space as both a profusión of the curatorial/museographic practice identity, art or anthropology?, and as a parody of the general sistem of axiologies of values regulates boths fields presuposicions and ideologíes on what is it or should be considered as "high" culture, "kitsh...

    1997 -New methodologies in the work with otherness. By abdel Hernández San Juan and Surpik angelini Following abdel Hernández San Juan  1996  theoretical paper read by him at fondren library focussed in developing max Weber and Alfred shutz " ideal types" method in sociology to the analysis of paradigms of configuratiónal procedures of " the posmodern work", abdel hernandez san Juan and Surpik angelini commit themselves to lecture a three months course of one lecture a week discussing several modalities of the work with otherness as "ideal types" under contemporary art. This course focussed on a variety of well diferienced modalities 1- the museum and the market: high and popular culture/ otherness or alterity? This first one "ideal types" born with an abdel project of research as curator of venezuelan art at the Alejandro Otero museum of visual art when he was focussing the relation between the high art museum and the food distributión marke...