1999-Ah Dzib Pízté Exhibit

   1999-Ah Dzib Pízté Exhibit: a perspectives 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 mark in posmodern sociocultural environments versus the simbolism of the face approaching from hermeneutic and semantique cultural análysis the correlations between doing an exhibit museographizing both the anthropology of tourism and maya artesans 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 travestism 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 (the mask simbolism, parody,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 and the maya collection, the paper lectured discussed on the hand intertextuality and on the other matters on the optical inconcient tend to be often at intercultural and transcultural anthropology regarding subjectivity of both sides, united states/México, (from we're must the gaze be seen one side or another, or both at the same time) anthropology/culture/representatión on the other side.

 The paper proposes a genealógy theorization of this issues to unveil relations between subjectivity, markets of tourism, cultural identity, anthropology and representation

The paper references conjuntion abdel Hernández San Juan ofter ussual references in semiótic theory and analysis including his paper the posmodern work with references to Néstor 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