link to keynote Lecture/ link a la conferencia magistral

Current Research

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MUXE now!: interrogating the visual cultures of a third gender community.

 

Research Aims: MUXE NOW is a fine art practice-based research project

that explores the distinctive visual identity of the ‘Muxe’ and its relation to contemporary globalised culture. The project will provide new perspectives on gender identities and visual and media culture and race in Mexico. The research context for the project starts locally in Juchitan, in the Mexican

state of Oaxaca, but makes connections between local and global concerns in relation to gender/visual identities, race and specifically to the idea of a ‘third gender’.

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Micro Macro Photo Litho initiated a new collaboration between artist printmaker Erika Servin and biomedical engineer Dr Enrique Escobedo-Cousin. It aimed to use experimentation with scale to provide insights into how photolithographic print processes are used in:

•   fine art printmaking and in 

•  ‘semiconductor micro-fabrication’. 

 

Working in collaboration in the Fine Art studios and lab spaces in Biomedical Science at Newcastle University, two series of prints were produced: 

1. 'Macro' prints  are a series of prints  depicting medical electrodes designed by Enrique Escobedo=Cousin, fabricated at Newcastle University as a part of a project aiming to study the human skeletal muscle (www.microemg.com). These prints were produced by Servin, using fine art lithographic print processes. 

2. ‘Micro’ prints made by Enrique Escobedo-Cousin with the same photo lithography process but on a microscopic scale using semiconductor fabrication techniques, depicts Erika’s interest in Popular Mexican culture, focusing on Contemporary Mexican subcultures with the aim of using the micro scale to view these portraits through the microscope and study them with attention.

 

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Los angeles de la calle y su neobarroquismo.

https://ru.dgb.unam.mx/bitstream/20.500.14330/TES01000249344/3/0249344.pdf

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