Global and Mobile Arts Practices and Forms in Mexican Literature and Visual Art

In the following dissertation, I analyze visual art and literature from Mexico produced since 1990 that contributes to an understanding of art in a period of immense accessibility and speed in global travel, communication, and commerce. Specifically, I analyze creative practices and articulations of travel and mobility in Gabriel Orozco and Damian Ortega's visual art and Rosa Beltran and Cristina Rivera Garza's literature. This generation of artists and writers, born in the 1960s and largely reshaping the creative world in the 1990s, more than any before, works while travelling and living abroad, redefining the national and conceptual circumferences of Mexican art from both within and outside of Mexico. The insertion of Mexican visual artists and writers into global circuits calls for a reconsideration of the origins and contexts of their artistic works. Moreover, the possibility of considering this generation of artists and writers as a group with shared creative practices and strategies has yet to be fully acknowledged.