Ah Dzib exhibit, a perspective from art critique

  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" cultural aesthetics reified massive codes from medias and tourism markets or "popular", "folklóric" culture so entailing a semiótic análysis of signs and a semantique one on culture (análysis on the mask simbolism as parody itself,etc), with the ways to understand the practice itself in the field of both anthropology and art.

  Written in ocasión of an invitation of abdel from the lake forest faculty of sociology and anthropology to participate with his research in the áreas of the museum of anthropology and representatión of culture, curatorial practice and ethnography, the touristic market of anthropology and maya art between united states and México, during the lecture reading his paper abdel focussed in discussing the spatial practice in which he coparticipated in conceptualizing the spatializations. 

  Focussing a side room unfolding visual references displays on quetzil eugenio Castañeda anthropology in Yucatán, an intermedia intertextual interfase proposed by abdel of presenting slides of stegerda archaeology gavinette in Yucatán during the 40s at the entrance of the maya collection room, the paper lectured discussed, on the one hand, intertextuality, and on the other hand, matters on the optical inconcient tend to be often at intercultural and transcultural anthropology regarding subjectivity on both sides, united states/México, (the gaze must be seen from one side or from the another?, or from both at the same time?), this as a major issues to be considered ethnographically, (anthropology/culture/representatión), to which the papers deliver análysis solucions attained through the know how of semiótic theory and cultural anthropology análysis developed in the paper as writing

 The paper proposes a genealógy theorization of this issues to unveil relations between subjectivity, markets of tourism, cultural identity, anthropology and representation. A semiótic theory one essay exploring semiótic theory and cultural anthropology in a same theorization, the paper included references to a conjuntion of texts from abdel Hernández San Juan often references in semiótic theory and analysis including his paper "The posmodern work", and References to Nestor García canclini book "The popular artesaníes in capitalism", Rosalind krauss "The optical inconcient" and dick cushman and George marcus "The traffic in culture: refiguring art and anthropology.

Lake forest college, faculty of sociology and anthropology, illinois, 1999