Nelly Richard is a theorist and essayist. She was the founder and editor of Revista de Crítica Cultural from 1990 to 2008, and was the director of the M.A in Cultural Studies at ARCIS University in Santiago, Chile, from 2004 to 2010. She received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1996. She has published numerous books including: Diálogos latinoamericanos en las fronteras del arte (2014), Crítica y Política (2013), Crítica de la memoria (2010), Feminismo, Género y diferencia(s) (2008), Fracturas de la memoria. Arte y pensamiento crítico (2007); Residuos y metáforas. Ensayos de crítica cultural sobre el Chile de la transición (1998), La insubordinación de los signos: cambio político, transformaciones culturales y poéticas de la crisis (1994), Masculino / Femenino (1993), Márgenes e Instituciones (1986).
Memory, Body, and the Political Economies of Signs
Through an analysis of Lotty Rosenfeld’s video-installation, with which she represented Chile—together with Paz Errázuriz—in the latest Venice Biennale 2015, I will look at the political meanings of the ways in which she interrupts and subverts the neoliberal hegemony and its mass media imaginaries through the body and actions of a dissenting subjectivity.