Emancipatory Action

Paula Trope And The Meninos

Edited by José Luis Falconi

Edited by Gabriela Rangel

Edited by Nicolau Sevcenko

Author Paula Trope

Contributions by Paulo Herkenhoff

Contributions by Doris Sommer

    This volume is based on the exhibition of Paula Trope at the Americas Society (NYC) made in conjunction wth Harvard University's Cultural Agency Initiative.

    Contemporary Brazilian artist Paula Trope has acquired recent notice for the pin-hole photography she creates together with the "Meninos da Rua" (street children) in Rio de Janeiro, of which she is not really the "author" but its facilitator, instructor, and curator.

    Taking Trope's work as a departure point, the volume is a critical examination of "collaborative" art projects, the status of "relational aesthetics," and the contested notion of "authorship" in artistic practices nowadays.

    The volume includes an interview of Paula Trope by the exhibit's co-curator Gabriela Rangel and renowned Brazilian art critic Paulo Herkenhoff, as well as the critical texts by co-curator of the exhibit José Falconi, Doris Sommer, and Benjamin Buchloh.

José Luis Falconi is Art Forum Curator at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University.

Gabriela Rangel is Director of Visual Arts at the Americas Society.

Doris Sommer is Professor of Romance Languages at Harvard University.