Juan Downey : the invisible architect

A key protagonist in the New York art scene of the 1970s and 1980s, Downey combined autobiographical content with an anthropological documentary style. His later work emphasized visual metaphor, collage-like techniques and non-linear narrative to explore European mythology and the roots of Latin American identity. Containing interviews with Downey's family, friends and fellow artists such as Trisha Brown, Luis Camnitzer, Jon Hendricks, Alfredo Jaar, Les Levine, Antoni Muntadas and Bill Viola, this publication includes the first scholarly anthropological reading of Downey's seminal series Video Trans Americas by renowned author Michael Taussig.