Visual Disobedience
Dr. Kency Cornejo, UNM Department of Art
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 | 02:00 pm
Latin American and Iberian Institute (801 Yale Blvd NE)
About:
Join LAII and the Department of Art for a discussion about Dr. Cornejo’s book, Visual Disobedience.
In Visual Disobedience, Dr. Kency Cornejo traces the emergence of new artistic strategies for Indigenous,feminist, and anticarceral resistance in the wake of torture, disappearance, killings, and US-funded civil warsin Central America. She reveals a direct line from US intervention to current forms of racial, economic, andgender injustice in the isthmus, connecting this to the criminalization and incarceration of migrants at theUS-Mexico border today. Drawing on over a decade of interviews with Central American artists andcurators, and a discussion of over eighty artworks, Dr. Cornejo highlights the role of visual disobedience asa strategy of decolonial aesthetics to expose and combat coloniality, heteropatriarchy, white supremacy,empire, and other systems of oppression.
Dr. Kency Cornejo is Associate Professor in the Department of Art at the University of New Mexico where she teaches Contemporary Latin American andLatinx Art Histories. Her teaching, research, and publications focus oncontemporary art of Central America and its US-based diaspora, art andactivism in Latin America, and decolonizing methodologies in art. Her work hasbeen supported by the Fulbright and Ford foundations, an Andy WarholFoundation Arts Writers Grant, and a National Endowment for the HumanitiesFaculty Award Grant, among others.
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This event is free and open to the public.
