This book, edited by Elena Shtromberg and Glenn Phillips, offers a rich overview of video art in Latin America from the 1960s to the present. Instead of a conventional compilation of academic texts, the editors put together a diversity of approaches and genres, such as analytical essays, interviews, photo essays, and more. The book includes contributions from South and North America that create an open-ended dialogue on video art from and in Latin America. Encounters is groundbreaking as the first volume in the English-speaking world dedicated exclusively to this medium in the region.
The editors state that this book does not attempt to articulate a totalizing narrative, “but rather to show the multiplicity of stories that coexist in Latin America and elsewhere, providing a kind of map for others to expand and clarify with their own investigations” (ix). Since its inception in the late sixties, video art has been a...
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