Iván A Ramos
Biographic Data
| ID | 3940953 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Iván A Ramos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Iván A |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramos |
| SIGNATURE | RAMOS I A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Riverside |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5939-070X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Breaking Down, Breaking Together
This essay considers the fragility of social relations through an understudied action that reveals the limits of sociality: laughter. In Latina artist Xandra Ibarra's performance piece Nude Laughing, the artist's manic fit of laughter goes on for several minutes, suggesting that to face the contorted body of another subject laughing is to face the uneasy reality of encounter. Analyzing three iterations of Nude Laughing across geographic locales, …
Introduction to Keynote Duet
Aimless Lives
This article makes use of the notion of amateurism to reframe our understandings of Mexican contemporary art of the late 1980s and early 1990s. I look specifically at Sarah Minter’s 1991 feature length video piece Alma Punk to suggest that its deployment of an aesthetics of amateurism indexes the oft-forgotten intersection between punk subcultures and the contemporary art scene of the period. Countering dominant discourses in art historical discu…
Slow Encounters
Slow Encounters:Chantal Akerman's From The Other Side, Queer Form, And The Mexican Migrant Iván A. Ramos (bio) "Not merely ashamed to be nourished and rich, but ashamed to be seen as someone who has to be aesthetically seduced where it is only a matter of conscience—good or bad—of being a human and nothing more." —Serge Daney, "The Tracking Shot in Kapo"1 An elderly woman sits to the right of the cinematic frame, wearing a floral blouse and grey …
Madness Is Contagious”
A marathon adaptation of Roberto Bolaño’s epic novel 2666 at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre revealed how the act of artistic creation has become implicated in the global machinery of political violence. Repeated throughout the five-hour play, the refrain “madness is contagious” seems to permeate 2666 like the stench of a body left to decompose on the side of a road
The Dirt That Haunts
The closing of the bar featured in the TV series Looking, Esta Noche, is discussed as part of a collection of essays that examine sexuality and gender in San Francisco at a moment when economic forces have changed the urban landscape
The viscosity of grief
This essay considers the possibilities of collective political mourning through Mexican artist Teresa Margolles's 2009 contribution to the Venice Biennale, De Que Otra Cosa Podríamos Hablar? (What Else Could We Talk About?). The author posits that our prevailing notions of grief and mourning rely upon a stable conception of single human subjects whose loss can be narrativized. This, the author argues throughout the essay, limits the possibilities…
The viscosity of grief
This essay considers the possibilities of collective political mourning through Mexican artist Teresa Margolles's 2009 contribution to the Venice Biennale, De Que Otra Cosa Podríamos Hablar? (What Else Could We Talk About?). The author posits that our prevailing notions of grief and mourning rely upon a stable conception of single human subjects whose loss can be narrativized. This, the author argues throughout the essay, limits the possibilities…
The Dirt That Haunts
The closing of the bar featured in the TV series Looking, Esta Noche, is discussed as part of a collection of essays that examine sexuality and gender in San Francisco at a moment when economic forces have changed the urban landscape
The viscosity of grief
This essay considers the possibilities of collective political mourning through Mexican artist Teresa Margolles's 2009 contribution to the Venice Biennale, De Que Otra Cosa Podríamos Hablar? (What Else Could We Talk About?). The author posits that our prevailing notions of grief and mourning rely upon a stable conception of single human subjects whose loss can be narrativized. This, the author argues throughout the essay, limits the possibilities…
Slow Encounters
Slow Encounters:Chantal Akerman's From The Other Side, Queer Form, And The Mexican Migrant Iván A. Ramos (bio) "Not merely ashamed to be nourished and rich, but ashamed to be seen as someone who has to be aesthetically seduced where it is only a matter of conscience—good or bad—of being a human and nothing more." —Serge Daney, "The Tracking Shot in Kapo"1 An elderly woman sits to the right of the cinematic frame, wearing a floral blouse and grey …
Madness Is Contagious”
A marathon adaptation of Roberto Bolaño’s epic novel 2666 at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre revealed how the act of artistic creation has become implicated in the global machinery of political violence. Repeated throughout the five-hour play, the refrain “madness is contagious” seems to permeate 2666 like the stench of a body left to decompose on the side of a road
Aimless Lives
This article makes use of the notion of amateurism to reframe our understandings of Mexican contemporary art of the late 1980s and early 1990s. I look specifically at Sarah Minter’s 1991 feature length video piece Alma Punk to suggest that its deployment of an aesthetics of amateurism indexes the oft-forgotten intersection between punk subcultures and the contemporary art scene of the period. Countering dominant discourses in art historical discu…
Introduction to Keynote Duet
Breaking Down, Breaking Together
This essay considers the fragility of social relations through an understudied action that reveals the limits of sociality: laughter. In Latina artist Xandra Ibarra's performance piece Nude Laughing, the artist's manic fit of laughter goes on for several minutes, suggesting that to face the contorted body of another subject laughing is to face the uneasy reality of encounter. Analyzing three iterations of Nude Laughing across geographic locales, …
Art (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)