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Departing from Radical Women. Latin American Art, 1960-1985 exhibition (Hammer Museum, LA; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Pinacoteca de Sao Paulo) co-curated by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill and Andrea Giunta, this course proposes to analyse the particular circumstances and the specific poetics that were proposed by Latin American Women artists and LGTIBQ+ identities between the sixties and the present.
The course introduces the specific historicity of Latin American feminism(s), particularly in the field of art, its early formations, poetics, developments, and processes of symbolic emancipation that supported processes of political emancipation. The approach of this course considers intersectional perspectives, particularly concerning issues of race and representation. From this perspective we will focus particularly on Brazil --even if, of course, other examples will be considered. Also diverse poetics involved with a fluid concept of sexual identity will be considered. We will work with words and concepts significant for Latin American art scenes, and we will focus on the study of particular works, videos and performances produce in Latin American, in specific contexts, avoiding to explain the works through genealogies of the artistic centers. We will introduce notions elaborated by Latin American curators, cultural critics and artists in order to propose an approach to Latin American Feminism(s) different from the narrations and histories of the centers. The framework of the course includes works produced under dictatorship and works produced after the democratic return in Latin American, images crossed by contexts of violence, repression, disappearance, and memory.
To what extent did the works made in those years introduce a new perspective of the body, affections, history, and concepts of emancipation that can also be analyzed from contemporary feminist perspectives, focussed on the de-hierarchization of the human, and other forms of interaction with the animal and with nature?
The course also introduces the transformation that marked the new inscription of Latin American feminism with the #niunamenos movement and the new activism developed by the formations of feminist artists, their concepts of organization, and the simultaneous search for gender representation and the questioning of the canon. Canon configurated by white and heteronormative sexualities that still dominates in the art world in Latin America (and beyond).
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