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ROSANA PAULINO | Obra da série BASTIDORES. Imagem transferida sobre tecido, linha de costura e bastidor de madeira. 30cm diâmetro. 1997.
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Cura Continua: Art, Curating, and Practices of Radical Care II
A series of dialogues co-sponsored by the Program in Latin American Studies and the Department of Art & Archaeology
The word “curate” commonly describes the professional management, selection, and presentation of works of art. But the term’s etymology lies in the Latin
curare, meaning
to heal,
to cure. This series of conversations underscores the critical significance of these connotations within contemporary artistic practices in Latin America and its diasporas. To curate, in this sense, is not simply to care for works of art. It is to care for relations between artists, institutions, and histories; to attend to discontinuities in these relations; to weave and sustain networks; to navigate institutional structures in ways that allow for opacity and insurgency alike. Departing from their own practices of radical care within the curatorial field, speakers will address topics including the transformative role of museums and archives; the hemispheric and cross-racial commitments of Latin American and Latinx art; the imperatives of feminist, queer, anti-racist, and decolonial thought; and strategies of forming and imagining artistic community.