TUESDAY, 20 NOVEMBER

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4-6 PM | SKIN OF MEMORY | LA PIEL DE LA MEMORIA
7 PM | ALA PLÁSTICA + GRANT KESTER + PILAR RIAÑO-ALCALÁ

Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater
University of California Los Angeles
120 Westwood Plaza
Los Angeles, California 90024

4PM

LA PIEL DE LA MEMORIA | SKIN OF MEMORY

Suzanne Lacy and Pilar Riaño-Alcalá will speak about La Piel de la Memoria, a long-term project they developed in Barrio Antioquia in Medellín, Colombia.

Suzanne Lacy is an artist and writer whose work includes large-scale public performances and installations, photographs and text on issues of social justice and equity. She is a proponent of audience engagement and artists' roles in shaping the public agenda. Lacy is Chair of the new Master's in Fine Arts: Public Practice at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.

Pilar Riaño-Alcalá 's research, teaching, community/pedagogical work, and writing bordercross Latin and North America. She is an anthropologist and communicator whose research focuses on the cultural dimensions of violence and the politics of memory, witnessing and reconciliation in "unstable" societies. Her methodologies, grounded in feminist practice and critical ethnographic inquiry, emphasize social praxis and the use of visual arts and interactive methods as means to recognize the participants as interlocutors.

This event is part of the ART + ACTIVISM lecture series sponsored by the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures and co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Theater and the UCLA Department of Performance Studies.

Otis MFA Public Practice at the 18th Street Art Center
18th Street Arts Center
1657 18th Street
Santa Monica, California 90404

A CONVERSATION WITH ALA PLÁSTICA, GRANT KESTER, AND PILAR RIAÑO-ALCALÁ

7PM

Ala Plástica is an arts and environmental organization based in La Plata, Argentina that works bio-regionally, within the nation of Argentina, as well as internationally. Since 1991 Ala Plástica has developed a range of non-conventional artworks, focused on local and regional problems, and in close contact and collaboration with other artists, scientists and environmental groups.
with Silvina Babich & Alejandro Meitín

Grant Kester is an Associate Professor of Art History in the Visual Arts Department at UCSD. His research focuses on socially-engaged art practice and the visual culture of American reform movements. His publications include Art, Activism and Oppositionality: Essays from Afterimage (1998), Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art, and Groundworks: Environmental Collaboration in Contemporary Art.

Pilar Riaño-Alcalá’s research, teaching, community/pedagogical work, and writing bordercross Latin and North America. She is an anthropologist and communicator whose research focuses on the cultural dimensions of violence and the politics of memory, witnessing and reconciliation in "unstable" societies. Her methodologies, grounded in feminist practice and critical ethnographic inquiry, emphasize social praxis and the use of visual arts and interactive methods as means to recognize the participants as interlocutors.

This event will be held in English and Spanish with simultaneous translation provided.

Hosted by the MFA Public Practice Program at Otis College of Art and Design