Archives for November 2016

Lorenza Aillapán, FILL AD CE MAPUNCE:/ Fill ad ce Vllkantun ka purrvn: Interpreter of Mapuche Ancestral Music and Dance. She is an artist, singer and activist-interventionist in Performing Arts and researcher of Mapuche theatricality; artistic director of “weichan purrvn”: dances of resistance; Mapuche Bilingual Intercultural Educator in artistic socio-cultural organizations and in indigenous communities.

Santiago, Chile. July 21, 2017.

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Carlos Martiel (Havana, 1989) studied at the Cátedra Arte de Conducta  between 2008 and 2010, led by Tania Bruguera. His works have been featured at the Havana, Pontevedra and Liverpool Biennials, as well as “La Otra” Biennial (Bogotá), the International Performance Art Biennial (Houston) and the 4th Thessaloniki Performance Festival (Greece).

Santiago, Chile. July 18, 2017.

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María Emilia Tijoux is a sociologist, professor and researcher from the Department of Sociology in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Universidad de Chile. She coordinates the doctorate in Social Sciences and Core Sociological Research on the Body and Emotions. She directs the magazine Actuel Marx Intervenciones. Her research addresses immigration in the last decades, xenophobia, racism, and the sexualization and racialization of immigrants, as well as processes of dehumanization. She is editor of the book Racismo en Chile: la piel como marca de la inmigración.

Santiago, Chile. July 18, 2017.

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César Martínez (1962) works to tackle different economic, social, and cultural issues that have arisen in the last few decades. From a logic of provocation, critique, and disturbance, he uses multiple media to confront topics such as the social surfeit against a failed system, the failure of institutions, and globalization.

Santiago, Chile. July 19, 2017.

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Barak adé Soleil makes dance, theatre, and performance art. An award-winning creative practitioner, he has been engaging diverse communities nationally and internationally for over two decades. His work speaks to the expanse of contemporary art; drawing upon legacies and aesthetics from the African diaspora, disability and queer culture.

Santiago, Chile. July 18, 2017.

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Angela Davis is Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz, and the author of ten books, including 2016’s Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement. Her work addresses the range of social problems associated with incarceration and criminalization of communities most affected by poverty and racial discrimination. She draws upon her own experiences as someone who spent eighteen months in jail and on trial, after being placed on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted List.” She has been an activist for six decades including as a founding member of Critical Resistance, an abolitionist organization dedicated to the dismantling of the prison industrial complex.

In this interview with Diana Taylor (University Professor at NYU and Founding Director of the Hemispheric Institute), Angela Davis discusses the role of art in social movements, the ability of aesthetics to make us think critically and imagine possible futures. Davis also reminds us that the Movement for Black Lives is not an exclusively Black movement, and encourages us to challenge “the assumption that the State is the ultimate formation within which we work.”

Santiago, Chile. July 18, 2017.

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