ABSTRACT
Globalizing visual art forces, accentuated in the 1990s and early 2000s, have facilitated an exponential increase in artistic transnational mobility, exchanges, circulation, and presentations across the Americas. This chapter re-positions the art historical study of artists and the effects of their contemporary artivist practices to explore a more nuanced and complex vision of transnationalism and its influence on contemporary art. The formation of transnational corridors of art by artists Héctor Duarte, Muriel Hasbun, and iliana emilia García and the collective La Force/La Fuerza examine a creative engagement and visual articulation in response to themes of migration, politics, border/borderlands, the environment, history and violence, postmemory/place, settlement and belonging, and social and gender justice, among others. Of particular importance is a feminist production and the increased presence of U.S. Latinos in the art of the United States to reveal a changing and evolving response to global and local issues.
