Event Description
This conversation takes its departure from the exhibition curated by Yina Jiménez Suriel, on view at KADIST San Francisco. In conversation with Natalia Brizuela, Jiménez Suriel will discuss her curatorial process and research project la historia de las montañas (the history of the mountains), on the topics of emancipation, perceptual systems beyond the human, and the creation of new imaginaries outside/beyond Western structures.
The related exhibition will be on view from October 13, 2023 to February 17, 2024 at KADIST, San Francisco, 3295 20th Street. For more information: https://events.berkeley.edu/clacs/event/221194-de-montanas-submarinas-el-fuego-hace-islas-from
Speakers
Yina Jiménez Suriel is a curator and researcher with a master’s degree in visual studies. She is the curator for The Current IV by TBA21-Academy, a three-year research project entitled otras montañas, las que andan sueltas bajo el agua (other mountains, adrift beneath the waves). She is the Associate Editor of the magazine Contemporary (C&) for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Natalia Brizuela is the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Chair and Professor in the Departments of Film & Media and Spanish & Portuguese at UC Berkeley. Her work focuses on photography, film and contemporary art, critical theory and aesthetics of both Spanish America and Brazil.
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