• Transfeminist Provocations Against Fascism

    CALDODECULTIVO'S ART & POLITICS ENCOUNTERS V.1
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  • Transfeminist Provocations Against Fascism is an encounter that explores the work of transfeminist and queer artists fighting through artistic interventions the growing fascist affects, policies and discourses that reactionary forces worldwide are imposing with regards to gender and sexuality. The featured artists and scholars use and study creative activism to contest fascist discourses and practices in our daily lives and in the political arena. The encounter consists in a series of public debates both online and in person about the role of art and humanities in the resistance against fascism and the creation of transfeminist futures with a strong Latin American accent. 

    Some of our guests will be joining us remotely, however we want to create a safe and critical face-to-face space to reflect and experience together the works of the invited artists, activist and scholars, focusing on how can we connect this global struggles to local matters. We will be meeting in three Buffalo artistic and cultural spaces that are important nodes in the local arts and culture ecosystem. 

    To participate fill the form below and we'll send you the zoom link and reading and audiovisual material from the authors and artists. 

    This encounter is part of CaldodeCultivo's yearly Arts & Politics Encounters and is sponsored by a Humanities New York Public Humanities Grant. 

     

    AGENDA

    Set Fear on Fire: The Feminist Call That Set the Americas Ablaze
    Colectivo LASTESIS
    Friday August 23rd 6:00pm
    @Fitz Books 


    Trans/trava/travestis Rebellious Trans Identities from the global south 
    Cole Rizki + Daniela Maldonado (Colombia)
    Thursday August 29th
    @BICA 7:00pm


    Militant art/ militant humanities in the fight against transnational fascism 
    Jennifer Ponce de León 
    Thursday September 5th 
    @BICA 7:00pm


    Transnational Abortion Struggles
    Jennifer Paige + Rachel Fallon
    Thursday September 12th
    @BICA 7:00pm

    Tenderness and Other Radical Forms of Bonding
    Fer/Cary Fuentes
    Saturday September 14th, 7:00pm
    @Agatha Falls 
     

     

     

  • PEOPLE

    Colectivo LASTESIS (Chile)

    Is an artistic, interdisciplinary and feminist collective from Valparaíso, Chile, featuring Daffne Valdés Vargas, Paula Cometa Stange and Sibila Sotomayor Van Rysseghem. The collective is dedicated to spreading feminist theses and demands through performance and video performance, combining performing, sound, graphic and visual arts with history, philosophy and social sciences.

    https://www.colectivolastesis.com/index-en.html 

    Cole Rizki, Ph.D. (USA)

    Assistant professor of Latin American Studies in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese and affiliate faculty with the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and the Department of American Studies at the University of Virginia. Rizki is a Latin Americanist and transgender studies scholar whose research examines the entanglements of transgender cultural production and activisms with histories of state violence and terror throughout the Américas. 

    https://www.colerizki.com/ 

    Daniela Maldonado Salamanca (Colombia):

    Artivist, community educator, whore, Lucci's mother, trasvesti, founder of the Trans Community Network, national representative for Colombia of the REDLACTRANS Latin American and Caribbean Network of Trans Women, producer and art director of the film Cada Vez Que Muero and vocalist of the band radamel 666.

    Jennifer Ponce de León

    Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also faculty in Latin American and Latinx Studies (LALS) and Comparative Literature; affiliated faculty in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies (GSWS) and Cinema Studies; and a member of the Graduate Group in Hispanic Studies.: Her interdisciplinary research focuses on 20th and 21st century Left movements and cultural production in the Americas and Marxist and anticolonial thought. She works across studies of visual arts, literature, and performance; transnational Latinx and Latin American studies; and critical theory.

    https://jenniferponcedeleon.wordpress.com/ 

    Rachel Fallon (Ireland)

    Visual artist who deals with themes of protection and defense in domestic realms and addresses the topic of motherhood and womens’ relationships to society. Her work encompasses sculpture, drawing, photography and performance and is firmly rooted in processes of making. As well as an individual practice, she is known for her collaborations with Irish and international artists and collectives; including Artists’ Campaign to Repeal the Eighth Amendment, Desperate Artwives, Feminist Parasite Institution, Grrrl Zine Fair and The Tellurometer Project.

    https://www.rachelfallon.com/ 

    Fer/Cary Fuentes (México)

    Fer/Cary Fuentes is a nonbinary Mexican artist whose new work explores masculinity and gender and sexual dissidence during a moment of profound patriarchal violence in Mexico. They first emerged onto the Mexican artistic scene as a performance artist at the end of the 1990s. In the early 2000s, Fuentes and their collaborator, Lorena Méndez, transitioned their work away from strictly artistic venues and began to work in the Mexican prison system in a project known as La Lleca. This ever shifting collective of artists, therapists, anarchists, and intellectuals became known for its nontraditional, experimental, and exploratory collaborative work with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals around thematics of gender, masculinity, and sexuality. In 2008 La Lleca published an overview of some of their methodologies and experiences in Cómo hacemos lo que hacemos (JUMEX, 2008), and in 2018 their archive became part of the Centro de Documentación Arkheia in the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC).

    https://www.lalleca.org/ 

     

  • PLACES

    Buffalo Institute of Contemporary Art - BICA

    The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art was founded in 2018 by curator Emily Ebba Reynolds and artist and Buffalo native Nando Alvarez-Perez. Our mission is to sustain communities through focused, practical engagements with contemporary art. 

    Since 2018 BICA has grown from a project space in a two-car mechanic’s garage to being an integral institution in the fabric of Buffalo’s cultural scene. We serve an audience that has been generationally overlooked in our city: artists and creative professionals, younger artists, artists and creatives of color, and LGBTQAI+ artists.

    https://www.thebica.org/

    AgathaFalls

    Agatha Falls is an artist-run dance, performance and movement space at 322 Niagara Street in Niagara Falls, NY: a cozy, experimental platform for making and sharing art, directly.

    Through providing space for workshops, symposiums, discussions, rituals, classes, screenings, performances and presentations, Agatha Falls aims to re-center community, growth, play, criticality and joy in art-making.

    https://www.agathas.art/

    FitzBooks

    Is a radical bookstore and cultural space. We are drawn to books that reveal hidden histories and motivate us to be agents of change. We believe that a reading revolution is key to countering American fascism and white supremacy. We hope that our inviting bookstore lays bare the connections between literature, art, insight and liberation.

    https://www.fitzbooks.net/

     

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