As it happens, it was in Havana that the term “avant-garde” entered Geeta Kapur’s active vocabulary. She’d been invited to speak at a conference organized as part of the Third Havana Bienal, in 1989, and the experience turned out to be pivotal for her—especially in the context we’re considering here. Twenty years later, I interviewed her as part of the research for a book about that exhibition, and a substantial part of our conversation concerned her encounter with the term and idea of an avant-garde, as deployed in the Latin American context. When Art Journal approached me about this project, I was reminded of that dialogue with Geeta, and so I went back and listened to it again.

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卡普尔和马瑟之后的一些想法

碰巧，正是在哈瓦那，“前卫”一词进入了 Geeta Kapur 的活跃词汇。1989 年，她被邀请在作为第三届哈瓦那双年展一部分而组织的会议上发言，而这次经历对她来说至关重要——尤其是在我们在这里考虑的背景下。二十年后，作为一本关于该展览的书的研究的一部分，我采访了她，我们谈话的很大一部分是关于她遇到了在拉丁美洲背景下部署的前卫一词和思想。当艺术杂志找我谈这个项目时，我想起了与吉塔的对话，所以我又回去听了一遍。