Ethnographic Publication Site

 

Abdel Hernández San Juan

Author, Writer and Composer


Books and Exhibits
(humanities, sciences and fine art plastic works)

contact

Abdel@isa.cult.cu
sanjuanabhdez@gmail.com

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ONLINE PUBLICATIONS ON THIS SITE

 

Artists Entrance: Five Exhibits at Rice University

The Presentational Linguistic / El Presentacional Lingüístico


The Intangible / Lo Intangible

 

The Given and the Ungiven / Lo Dado y lo no Dado

 

After Ethnomethodology

Being and Monad

The Liminals.

Philosophizing and Light.

The Secular

Elusion and Imago.

The Subject in Creativity.

Inspirations and Creation.

Hermeneutic and Axiology.

The Anobjectual Object.

Theory of Knowledge and Performativity.

Sense and Meaningfulness: Contingency Discourse of Fieldwork.

Thinking on Art

Hermeneutic and Axiology.

Avantgard and Posavantgard.

Multiaspectuality: Prismas of Visibility.

The Anobjectual Object.

The Art Techniques.

Art and Life.

Art as Definition.

 

SOME DETAILS

literary works/books

Title: The Presentational Linguistic
Author: Abdel Hernandez San Juan
Type of Work: Literary of philosophical essays
Details of Chapters: The Presentational Linguistic. Theorizing Media Today. The Intersticials. By The Untangible. Stratus Confines. Philosophizing the Field.


Title: Being and Monad
Author: Abdel Hernandez San Juan
Type of Work: Literary of philosophical essays
Details of Chapters: Being and Monad. The Liminals. Philosophizing and Light. The Seculars. Artificial Inteligence. , Consequences of Technology. Archaeology of Ideology. Elusion and Imago.


Title: The Subject in Creativity
Author: Abdel Hernandez San Juan
Type of Work: Literary of philosophical essays
Details of Chapters: The Subject in Creativity. Inspiration and Creation. Hermeneutic and Axiology. The Anobjectual Object. Theory of Knowledge and Performativity. After Ethnometodology.

Title: The Given and the Ungiven
Author: Abdel Hernandez San Juan
Type of Work: Literary of philosophical essays
Details of Chapters: The Phenomenic. The Given and the Ungiven. Writing in front of Ciber. Ethnography: Sense and Meaningfulness. Ritual in the Technology World of Every Day Life. Material Culture.

Title: Thinking on Art
Author: Abdel Hernandez San Juan
Type of Work: Literary of philosophical essays
Details of Chapters: Hermeneutic and Axiology. Avantgard and Posavantgard. Multiaspectuality: Prismas of Visibility. The Anobjectual Object. By Abdel Hernandez San Juan, The Art Techniques.
Art and Life. Art as Definition.

Precios de Venta - Artworks
The list below includes selected references to Plastic Art bidimensional and three-dimensional pieces of individual exhibits defined by art techniques as drawings, painting, mixtechniques, environment installation and performaces photography

Title: The Market from Here
Author: Abdel Hernandez San Juan
Guest Scenographer: Fernando Calzadilla
Genre: High Art Environment Installation Performance
Art Techniques: Mix Technique Environment Installation and Ready Mades
Materials: Liquid Asphalt Sienna Painting on Transparent plastic, Wood, Found Objects, Recycled Materials, Writing and Photography
Parts: The Surface, The Vestible, Tamizes, The Cronotrop, The Viewer, Modular Structure, Circuit, Light, Markets Environments, Hierbateros, Buhoneros, Merolicos, Carretilleros
Type of Work: Plastic Art three-dimensional Individual Exhibit
Sides: 9 m x 9 m x 6 m and variable dimensions
Prizes of Sale: 50.000 $, 70 per cent to the author Abdel Hernandez San Juan
30 per cent to the scenographer
Destination: Viewers in the art gallery
Place: Back Yard Sewall Hall, Rice University, Houston, Tx, EUA
Date: March 26-April 16, 1997

-Individual Exhibits
- Gathering Energy, High Art Exhibit of 20 Charcoals on fine art paper kraft, Sicardy Gallery, Houston, Texas, EUA, 1996
- The Market from Here, High Art Environment Art Installation, Back Yard Sewall Hall, Rice University, March 26-April 16, Houston,
Texas, EUA, 1997
- Language, Knowledge and Reality, High Art Environment Art Installation, Sicardy Gallery, Houston, Texas, EUA, 1998
- Hacer, High Art Environment Installation, Villa Theodora Private Home, City of Havana, Cuba, 1989
- Center of Research or Laboratory of the Externed Soul, High Art Environment Installation, Caiman Barbudo Art Gallery, City of Havana, Cuba, 1988
- The Market Exhibit. By Abdel Hernandez San Juan, Lecture discussed on my high art environment exhibit The Market from Here at ISA Room 4, May, City of Havana, 2004
- The Market as Individual Exhibit. By Abdel Hernandez San Juan, Lecture discussed on my high art environment exhibit The Market from Here at Torre de Letras, City of Havana, 2007

-Private High Art Collectors
Mike y Cristina Jadick, Houston, Texas, EUA
Diana y Carlos Gland, Philadelphia, EUA
Paolo y Surpik Angelini, Houston, Texas, EUA
Maria Inez Sicardi, Houston, Texas, EUA
Sicardi Gallery Collectors, Houston, Texas, EUA
Cristian y Analia., Santiago de Chile, Chile
Desiderio Navarro, Ciudad Habana
Marcia Leiseca, Ciudad Habana

Lectures
- Lecture discussed at the Panel Art and Architecture: A Posible Dialogue, Past, Present and Future, with Lectures ponences by Abdel Hernandez San Juan, Fruto Vivas and Juan Pedro Pisani, Consolidado Foundation, Caracas, 1991
- Lecture discussed at the panel Theory and Practice of Artistic Creation with lectures by Abdel Hernandez San Juan, Luis Brito Garcia, Miguel Posani
- Lecture discussed at the Panel Pluralism and Multiculturalism in Venezuelan Culture in Front of the Globalization Process with lectures by Abdel Hernandez San Juan and Peran Herminy
- Lecture discussed at the panel The Production of Venezuelan Art in the City with lectures by Abdel Hernandez San Juan and Peran Herminy
- The Concept of Transparency: The Market from Here. By Abdel Hernandez San Juan, Ponencia discutida en el Panel Fictocriticism on my high art environment exhibit The Market from Here, desarrollado en el Bag Lecture Main Room, 12: 00 am en la Facultad de Antropología en Rice University. (Con la participación como ponentes de Abdel Hernandez San Juan, George Marcus, Michael Taussig y Paul Rabinow). Atención: George Marcus, Houston, Texas, EUA, 1998
- Stage Scenographer as Ethnographer: The Market from Here. By Abdel Hernandez San Juan, Lecture ponencia on my high art environment exhibit The Market from Here en el Panel Beyond Critique and Counter Critique, Paradigms, en el Congreso Nacional de Antropología integrado por Abdel Hernandez San Juan, George Marcus, Lisa Breglia, Quetzil Eugenio y Jeff Impele, Universidad de Chicago, Chicago, EUA, 1999
- Theory and Enactivity: The Market from Here. By Abdel Hernandez San Juan. Ponencia discutida on my high art environment exhibit The Market from Here en el Panel Theorizing Performativity. Con la participación como ponentes de Abdel Hernandez San Juan, Quetzil Eugenio y Lisa Breglia. Atención: Quetzil Eugenio, Congreso LASA de Siete Días, Incluye Full Transcription de Conversaciones, Universidad de la Florida, Florida, EUA, 2000
- Theorizing Media Today. By Abdel Hernandez San Juan, Lecture discussed at the panel Comprender la Contemporaneidad desde los Mass Medias with lectures by Abdel Hernandez San Juan, Montes de Oca and others, Luz and Officio Center of Plastic Art and Designs

Selected Essays
Abdel Hernandez San Juan, Conceptualism, Transvanguard and Postmodernism. By Isis Armenteros, Ballet Alicia Alonso, 1988
Abdel Hernandez San Juan, The Predicament and Praxis of Heraldi, El Caiman Barbudo, 1990
Abdel Hernandez San Juan: A Respositioned Conceptualist, The Museum of Modern Art of New York, 1998
Out Door Installation: Art Market Review. By Patricia Johnson, The Houston Chronicle, Section D, Pp, April, Houston, Texas, EUA, 1997
Trance Plant. By Donald Caledare, Artlies Magazine, Houston, Texas, EUA, 1997
Language, Knowledge and Reality. By Ileana Marculesco, Artlies Magazine, Houston, Texas, EUA, 1998
Art Editor Commentary. By Terrell James, Gulf Coast Magazine of Fine Art and Literature, Pp alante, Pp, atras, Volume VIII, Houston, Texas, EUA, 2000

 

Author Biography

Abdel Hernández San Juan is a well known national and international figure in the northern American academic world as well as in Venezuela and Cuba. He is essentially an independent author, writer and composer of successful literary works books of philosophical essays such as The Subject in Creativity, Being and Monad, The Presentational Linguistic, The Given and the Ungiven and Thinking on Art, amongst many others. He is cosnidered one of the most innovative and erudite young avant-garde theoreticians in the academy today. His attention comes from epistemology directed at hard sciences, literacy to aesthetics and field theory research evolving issues of philosophy of language, philosophy of the subject, performance studies and the visual arts.

He was a graduate of the School of Plastic Art and Design at the Fine Art Academy of San Alejandro and a professional in Fine Arts in the speciality of painting during four years of studies 1983-1987 (included four levels of drawing, painting, print making, sculpture, free creation, basic design, graphic design, perspective, anatomy, western fine art history, theory, western literature, english, spanish grammar, panorama of cuban culture, physics, biology, chemistry, mathematics, geography, botanics, sports physiquian education, deportes), with the thesis "The Work and the Explanation of the Work" (Diptych acrylic on wood) and "Being in me I come to me" (triptych acrylic painting on paper), Malecon, Copellia, and "Hechalusimbol" (triptych, Acrylic painting on canvas), as well as the thesis paper-essay "The work and the explanation of the Work," City of Havana, June 1987.

Developing an innovative exploration of the relation between theory, creativity and performance as literacy, his career evolved professionally from the plastic and visual arts were he is currently publishing and intensively engaged at interdisciplinary developments having lectured at the Anthropology Department and The Fondren Library at Rice University as at panels sush as Fictocriticism 98, Equinox 98, Beyond Critique and Counter critique: Paradigms 99, The Art Pizte 99 Theorizing Performativity 2000 at the Department of Anthropology at Rice University, The University of Houston, The Congress of Anthropology of Chicago and LASA respectively (1997-2000). He has performed with colleagues as Stephen A. Tyler, Quetzil Eugenio, Lisa Breglia and Michael Taussig. He lived in Houston, Texas from 1997 to 2002 with a fellowship as a research associate at the Anthropology Department at Rice University and then movde to California and now work in field travels. Patricia Johnson, Donald Caledare, Ileana Marculesco and Terrell James published on him at the Houston Chronicle, Art Lies Magazine and Gulf Coast 19 97-2000. He exhibited 20 successful charcoals at Sicardy Gallery of Houston 96 and has also discussed theoretical lectures and interventions at the Fondren Library Lectures Auditorium 96, and the meeting with Catherine David at the University of Texas at Austin in 1998. He has lived in Caracas, Venezuela, and worked as a professor of theory at the ISA, La Habana, Cuba. He is a permanent resident of the United States having resided in Texas since 1998.

 

 

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