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The Politics of Memory Art in Peru Today

Fri, May 24, 2:15 to 3:45pm, TBA

Session Submission Type: Panel

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What are the politics of political art? What does it mean to be an activist-artist in contemporary human rights contexts? How is memory-art expressly political, not just in its content, but also in its production and reception? This panel examines these questions in the context of contemporary Peru. Analyzing memory art, and its artists, from three different genres — theater, photography and plastic arts — the panelists will probe the complex relationship between art and politics, exposing multiple interactions between a human rights transitional agenda, artistic production and reception, and activist practice. Whether in the context of an internationally-lauded theater work, a critical photographic project, feminist art-activism, or a diverse series of installations and paintings, one notes on the part of the artists here discussed a desire for intervention beyond the practice and product of art-making. This begs the question, to what extent do the cultural agents of memory-political-art aspire to, and occupy, a position of political brokerage? At stake is the extent to which, and by what means, memory art and art-activist practice is contributing to a desired transformation of social relations in Peru today.

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