ARTIVISMO:
The Place of Art and Politics
in Latin America
This one-day conference explores how artistic interventions held in public spaces in Latin America in recent years have been reshaping the ‘proper place’ and agendas of both art and politics in the region. We are interested in interventions into state politics that combine art and activism, which have been on the rise in countries like Mexico, Colombia and Argentina. These practices engage urgent questions that are being widely disputed throughout the region, concerning violence, memory and citizenship.
This one-day conference explores how artistic interventions held in public spaces in Latin America in recent years have been reshaping the ‘proper place’ and agendas of both art and politics in the region. We are interested in interventions into state politics that combine art and activism, which have been on the rise in countries like Mexico, Colombia and Argentina. These practices engage urgent questions that are being widely disputed throughout the region, concerning violence, memory and citizenship.
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This conference is sponsored by the School of Art and Humanities at the University of Cambridge and the Simón Bolívar Fund.
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