Come join four Viequense community organizations for an afternoon gathering that celebrates the history of Vieques and the work being done to strengthen rhizomatic connections necessary to flourish futures in the broad Puerto Rican archipelago. This event follows the Friday, November 8 panel “Radical Sovereignties, Radical Archives.”

The afternoon gathering will feature the Archivo Histórico de Vieques, La Colmena Cimarrona, Vidas Viequenses Valen and La Alianza de Mujeres Viequenses.

There will also be poetry reading by Nicole Cecilia Delgado and Mariposa (María Teresa Fernández), an art workshop with Sandra Reyes, and exhibition tours of Materials of Solidarity by Nadine Fattaleh, Student Artist-in-Residence at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. There will be presentations, booths, art, music and food.

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Event Schedule

• 3:10pm Opening remarks by Alexandra Connelly and Mariposa (María Teresa Fernández)

• 3:15pm Welcome  by Marie Cruz Soto, with introduction to the exhibit Materials of Solidarity by Nadine Fattaleh

• 3:30pm Poetry Reading by Nicole Cecilia Delgado and Mariposa

• 3:50pm Presentation by Archivo Histórico de Vieques 

• 4:00pm Presentation by Corazones en Reconstrucción

• 4:20pm Presentation by Vidas Viequenses Valen 

• 4:40pm Presentation by Alianza de Mujeres Viequenses

• 5:00pm Presentation by Colmena Cimarrona

• 5:20pm Food and Merriment!

• 4:10pm Arts Workshop with Sandra Reyes

• 3-5pm Exhibition Tours: Materials of Solidarity with Nadine Fattaleh

Exhibit by Art Collective Corazones en Reconstrucción

Tables from

• Archivo Histórico de Vieques 

• Alianza de Mujeres Viequenses 

• Vidas Viequenses Valen 

• Colmena Cimarrona 

• Nicole Cecilia Delgado from La Impresora

This event is organized by NYU Gallatin and The Latinx Project and co-sponsored by the Urban Democracy Lab, and the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU.

Image Credit: “Protesta contra la marina”, 1964, Archivo Histórico de Vieques (AHV).

Vulnerable communities enact sovereignties that decenter the state while strengthening relationships on which survival depends. This panel will delve into such radical praxis through a closer look at archiving and the Archivo Histórico de Vieques. The AHV is a community archive born out of the struggle against the U.S. Navy’s occupation of Vieques, Puerto Rico (1940s-2003). In the early days, it aimed to give voice to Viequenses and to counter the silences imposed by colonialism.

Today, the AHV continues to cultivate community-centered stories. Moreover, it empowers community members to narrate history in their own terms and to, through such enactment of narrative sovereignty, chart out Viequense futures. This panel will accordingly address how archiving can be a praxis for narrative sovereignty that enables communities to reclaim their stories, counteract historical erasures and assert control over their collective memory. Panelists include historians and archivist from the Puerto Rican archipelago and diaspora.

This event is organized by NYU Gallatin and sponsored in part by The Latinx Project.

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Join us also on Saturday, November 9 for a gathering to follow the panel: enRIZOMAndo desde Vieques: An Afternoon Gathering for Archipelagic Histories and Futures.

Image credit: Archivo Histórico de Vieques (AHV), https://dloc.com/

As trans rights and embodiment are under attack in the United States, trans activists and legal activists are advancing a broad trans rights agenda in Mexico, introducing legislation in Congress to codify the rights of children to claim and express their gender identity as they and their parents see fit. Meanwhile, like millions of other migrants, Mexicans and Mexican American trans women have historically lived across and beyond national boundaries. Our invited guests discuss their experiences of advocating for trans rights in Mexico and the United States, of the joy and grief of living trans lives across national boundaries, and of the Venn Diagram that is migrant death and trans deaths in the U.S. Southwest. The panelists’ discussion of their experiences cruzando gendered, legal and geographic fronteras will be accompanied by two performances that illustrate the complexity of living life across boundaries.

The panel will consist of a conversation with Children’s Rights Legal Advocate Tania Morales; Author and Activist Alejandra R. DeRuiz; Performance Artists and Activists Lía García, and Angel Lartigue, moderated by Prof. Laura Gutierrez.

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Participants

Tania Morales

Lawyer, art historian and activist. She’s an adviser of the Network for Gender Equality (REDIGE in Spanish) and an advisory assemblywoman of COPRED. Tania founded the Asociación para las Infancias Transgénero AC. which is an organization that mainly accompanies and strengthens mothers who are going through the processes of gettingthe recognition of the gender identity of their trans* children. She’s created strategies for the enforceability of rights. During her five years leading the organization, she supported federal, state, administrative, legislative, and judicial processes to secure the right to identity for transgender and non-binary youth. She designed the first protocol for schools with transgender and non-binary children and teens and, to this day, supports families and schools in its implementation. She has promoted the participation of transgender and non-binary youth in consultations conducted by federal and state-level institutions to develop public policies for their protection. She obtained the first “Amparo” granted by the Mexican Federal Justice Board to a person under eighteen years old to prevent a pathologizing trial and secure their birth certificate through a simple administrative procedure. She collaborated in creating the first protocol for the care of transgender and non-binary minors in Social Assistance Centers in the state of Nuevo León. She coordinated the books:

– “SumaTe: Trans Children in Mexico” (2020)

– “Schools: Development of Individuals.” (2024)

She directed the animated short films:

– “La T en Corto”: experiences of a family with a trans* kid” (2019)

– “Transversalidades”: experiences of trans* and nonbinary youth in the educational system.(2024)
Lia García

(La Novia Sirena) Mexico 1989. She is an educator, poet and oral storyteller. Her trans activism projects have focused on creating performative and scenic proposals that question the effects of violence on dissident identities. Creator of the project “Cucarachas literarias”, the first archive of LGBTIQ children’s and youth literature. Published in sexto piso, editorial Sitges and the Instituto Hemisférico de Performance among other editorial media.

Laura G. Gutiérrez

is Associate Professor of Latinx and Mexican Performance and Visual Studies in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where she also serves as Associate Dean for Community Engagement and Public Practice in the College of Fine Arts. She has received support from the Getty Research Institute and from UT’s Provost Author’s Fellows program for the book she is currently completing, Binding Intimacies in Contemporary Queer Latinx Performance and Visual Art. She is the author of Performing Mexicanidad: Vendidas y Cabareteras on the Transnational Stage, winner of a Modern Languages Association book award, and has published catalog essays, journal essays, book chapters, and reviews on performance, visual arts, film, and video art. As Artistic Director of OUTsider (Austin, TX), Gutiérrez programs the organization’s annual festival.

Angel Lartigue

is a curatorial and artistic researcher whose work explores the relationship between the body and land through the use of “putrefaction” matter as raw material. This concentration has led her to experimenting with archaeological processes of decomposition in artworks, incorporating fungi, insects, and even odors captured during fieldwork.

Lartigue’s Bacteriomancy (2022), a two-part performance, explores how living matter can carry memories of pandemics past and present brought about by colonialism, imperialism, and military occupation. For the group exhibition unending beginnings at University of Southern California Roski School of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA (2022), Lartigue incorporated organic matter such as seaweed collected from neighboring coastlines and extracted agar nutrients from the seaweed to grow bacteria and fungi in acrylic purses. Bacteriomancy culminated in a ritual performance during which Lartigue dissected and mummified a lamprey.

Lartigue’s solo exhibitions include Por los siglos de los siglos, Wedge Space Houston Community College, Houston, TX (2019) and La ciencia avanza pero yo no (Science Advances But I Do Not), BOX13 ArtSpace, Houston, TX (2017). She has performed and shown work in group exhibitions at the Outsider Art Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2022); DiverseWorks, Houston, TX (2022, 2019); The Latinx Project at New York University, New York, NY (2021); and Art League Houston, Houston, TX (2019), among others. Lartigue designed the label book, La ciencia avanza pero yo no (2017), which is in the rare books collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Hirsch Library, Houston, TX. She participated in the international conference “Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence in Art & Science 2020,” hosted by the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Vienna, Austria, presenting her essay “Science at the Club: Putrefaction as an Artistic Medium.” Lartigue has given presentations and seminars at the University of Texas at Austin and Columbia University.

Lartigue has been awarded grants for collaborative projects through the Idea Fund (2022, 2021), U.S. Latinx Art Forum’s CHARLA Fund (2021), The Grants to Artists grant through the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2023). She was an honorary research fellow to the artistic laboratory SymbioticA at the University of Western Australia (2020), and has been selected for the International Studies Curatorial Program as part of the Vision Fund for 2025.

Lartigue has undergone training in human remains recovery at the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State.

Alexandra Rodriguez

Alexandra is a native of Mexico City where she is currently living and identifies as a transfeminine person. She is Program Director at La Jauría Trans, a virtual activism and support program for trans and Gender Diverse people in Mexico City. She is also a freelance consultant and researcher in Gender and Sexuality. Alexandra is also an English teacher and translator.

Alexandra is a creative consultant in unitary collaboration using performance to make visible, denounce, and create a dialogue, narrating her experiences as a transfeminine, migrant person with mixed roots; crossed by these intersections that she considers a fundamental tool for her work as a human rights activist. Performance has been an important part of Alexandra’s life. Alexandra is also dedicated to providing workshops and cultural sensibility training on LGBTQI+ issues, organizing conferences and mobilizations internationally, including in Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.

This event is organized by NYU's Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality and sponsored in part by The Latinx Project.

Dr. Troncoso’s dissertation titled “Queering Orishas: Embodied Knowledges and Living Archives” explores the lived experiences of LGBTQ practitioners of Santería and Espiritismo in contemporary Puerto Rico. Dr. Troncoso uses critical autoethnography and participatory observation grounded in decolonial feminist approaches to unravel the complex dynamics of same-sex desires, queer strategies for survival, and notions of transness that deconstruct fixed notions of gender and sexuality within sacred spaces.

Please join Dr. Troncoso and three participants of their ethnographic research: Teresa Karolina, Iris Pier and Ana Paula Teixeira on October 23rd from 6-8 pm at NYU for what promises to be a rich and lively discussion.

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This event is sold out. Seating is available first-come, first-serve. The event will be live-streamed by one of the panelists, but the event will not be recorded as per the preference of the event organizer.

Participants

Aurelis Troncoso 

Aurelis Troncoso, Ph.D. (they), holds a Ph.D. in American Culture from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. Troncoso’s research focuses on the transnational experiences of femmes, non-binary and LGBTQ+ practitioners of Santeria and Espiritismo in Puerto Rico and how practitioners negotiate race, nationality, queerness and transness within sacred spaces. Their work also extends to Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Dr. Troncoso is a member of the Diaspora Solidarities Lab, a multi-institutional Black feminist partnership that supports solidarity work in Black and Ethnic studies led by Drs. Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez and Jessica Marie Johnson, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. They currently are the Miriam Jiménez Román post-doctoral fellow at New York University, their work here centers Black Latinx queer and trans* experiences within Afro-Diasporic religions, ushering a vital and necessary component of Afro-Latinx embodied knowledge production. Dr. Troncoso joins a legacy of scholar-practitioners committed to centering Blackness, queerness and spirituality in a larger effort to advance Afro-Latinx studies, queer and trans studies, and religious studies.

Iris Pier

Iris Pier (omo Oyá), is a practitioner of Santería and 21 Divisions. Initiated at eight years young she is also an espiritista, medium, and tarot reader. She has been a highly respected Oba Oriate since 2004. She is internationally known as a performer of the iconic Puerto Rican singer Iris Chacón since 1995. Pier is a member of the Association Cultural Yoruba of Cuba and is the president of Temple and Cabildo of Puerto Rico and New York.

Ana Paula Teixeira

(they/she) Step into the vibrant and dynamic world of Ana Paula Teixeira, a boundary-pushing filmmaker and photographer hailing from the US and Puerto Rico. Ana's captivating work shines a spotlight on the hidden beauty of Puerto Rico, celebrates the diversity of the LGBTTQ+ community, and challenges colonial social norms with a fierce resistance. With a keen eye for storytelling and a passion for amplifying BIQPOC voices, Ana has made waves in the industry with their thought-provoking films and striking photography. Featured in renowned publications and film festivals, Ana's work is a testament to the power of representation and the importance of authentic storytelling.

Teresa Karolina Muñoz

(photo by Ana Teixeira)

Teresa Karolina (she/her) is a 25-year-old multidisciplinary artist in training, she considers herself an apprentice in movement, model, performer and writer. She has collaborated and is part of different performance art projects such as “La Otra Laboratoria” where she is currently a resident and councilor. She has also been part of audiovisual productions as an actress, model and as a production assistant. She currently collaborates with organizations, artists and community-based projects as co-coordinator and personal assistant.

The Miriam Jiménez Román Fellowship is made possible with support from The Mellon Foundation.

Event Recap

The following program takes place at NYU Madrid and is a follow-up to The Latinx Project’s 2022 panel “Latinx in Spain.” Learn more about the 2022 conversation here.

Mientras que lxs migrantes de América Latina constituyen el grupo más grande de migrantes en España y han vivido en la península durante siglos, hay poco conocimiento y comprensión sobre su situación histórica y contemporánea, y menos aún de lxs artistas latinxs en España. Este panel examinará lo que (des)aprendemos sobre raza, nación e imperio al centrarnos en las experiencias de diversos artistas contemporáneos latinxs que viven en Madrid y al explorar la formación de identidades diaspóricas. El panel se centrará en las experiencias de cuatro artistas/colectivos de origen latinoamericano que abarcan diferentes generaciones de migración para profundizar en las memorias, historias y antecedentes étnico-raciales específicos que a menudo son borrados y marginados. Lxs participantes compartirán sus saberes y prácticas artísticas y activistas para sanar heridas coloniales y descentrar las posiciones hacia los cuerpos migrantes, negros, indígenas, queer y/o anticoloniales en la España contemporánea.

22 de octubre (18:00 - 20:00)

NYU Madrid

Calle Barquillo, 13, 28004 Madrid

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Francisco Godoy Vega – Colectivo Ayllu. Escritor, artista y curador QBIPOC. Doctor en Historia del Arte y Cultura Visual (UAM, 2015), miembro del colectivo Ayllu y co-director del Programa Palenque Chiquichinchay de Migrantes Transgresorxs. Entre sus publicaciones se encuentran Usos y costumbres de los blancos (2023), La exposición como recolonización (2018) y No existe sexo sin racialización (ed., 2017). Ha publicado también los libros de poesía La revolución de las ratas (2013) y La enfermedad del sudaca (2018). Asimismo ha sido ponente en una veintena de seminarios y congresos, entre los que destacan Ámà: 4 Days on Caring, Repairing and Healing (Gropius Bau, 2021), Aabaakwad (MCA Sydney, 2020), Descolonizar Europa (El Born, 2018) y Descolonizar el museo (MACBA, 2014). Ha curado exposiciones como El robo del dolor (MNBA Chile, 2023), Todos los tonos de la rabia (MUSAC, 2018) o Crítica de la razón migrante (La Casa Encendida, 2014). Como miembro del colectivo Ayllu, ha expuesto en Matadero Madrid, la Bienal de Sydney, el Centro de Arts Santa Mònica, la Bienal de Kochi, el CAC de Quito o la Bienal de Sao Paulo.

Silvia Ramírez Monroy – La Parcería. Artista, editora e investigadora independiente. Estudia, desde una perspectiva interdisciplinar, la relación entre el arte, la historia y la memoria; y analiza la dimensión política de las prácticas artísticas. Se interesa concretamente en los relatos históricos y biográficos asociados con lo desaparecido y lo ausente. Su propuesta artística actual, parte de una reflexión sobre la escritura y la palabra, y plantea una re-escritura del pasado a partir de un lenguaje personal y experimental. Ha participado en diferentes exposiciones colectivas en Madrid y Bogotá y ha comisariado, de manera colectiva e individual, diversas exposiciones en Madrid. Es integrante de La Parcería, colectivo de pensamiento, creación y acción, formado por personas migrantes para la producción de proyectos culturales, siendo la responsable de la editorial y forma parte de la Comisión de Experimentación Artística del colectivo. Los proyectos responden a necesidades específicas del contexto social donde se realizan y promueven la creatividad artística como instrumento de activación de dinámicas interculturales que inicien, faciliten y acompañen procesos de educación, comunicación y transformación urbana y social.

Sandra Gamarra Heshik. Artista multidisciplinar peruana residente en Madrid. Su obra reflexiona sobre los mecanismos del mundo del arte y los legados coloniales. En ella hace uso de metodologías apropiacionistas y de archivo, e incorpora piezas de pintura, instalaciones, vídeo, escultura y textos.  Entre 1990 y 1997 estudió en la Facultad de Arte de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Perú, doctorándose en la Facultad de Bellas Artes de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha en 2003. En 2009 representó a Perú en la Bienal de Venecia y en 2010 en la Bienal de Sao Paulo. En 2021 inauguró la exposición Buen gobierno en la sala Alcalá 31, que reflexionaba sobre el colonialismo del Imperio español y la noción de alteridad, así como su impacto en las nociones de arte. Antes de su inauguración, la Consejería de Cultura de la Comunidad de Madrid, responsable institucional de la exposición, obligó a eliminar de ella las palabras “racismo” y “restitución”. Actualmente representa a España en la 60 Bienal de Arte de Venecia con el proyecto Pinacoteca migrante.

José Ramón Hernández – Osikán. Vivero de Creación Contemporánea. Artista indisciplinar afrocubano, comisario, docente y gestor cultural. Egresado del Instituto Superior de Arte de Cuba. Fundador, coordinador artístico y general de Osikán – vivero de creación contemporánea. Gestor y comisario de Zona Cero – taller de experimentación creativa desde el 2010 y de Habana Off – escala 1 desde 2017.  Su investigación creativa explora la ritualidad afrodescendiente, la memoria personal y colectiva, las cuerpas periféricas y la construcción de cartografías afectivas, el trabajo con documentos no ficcionales y las estrategias de lo sensible para afectar e intervenir en procesos sociales y en comunidades. Osikán es un vivero de creación, investigación y acción en el que artistas, especialistas, activistas y comunidades conviven. Un vivero de encuentros y de participación que imagina estrategias de lo sensible para potenciar diálogos críticos, reparar heridas sociales en nuestros contextos de vida y de trabajo hoy. Activamos la creación con el deseo de poner las manos en la tierra. La germinación de aprendizajes colectivos, proyectos curatoriales, alianzas, pensamiento crítico, deambulaciones y delirios.

Image Credit: ‘Querían brazos y llegamos personas II’, Sandra Gamarra. 2022

Event Recap

Join us for a conversation between artist-in-residence Dalila Sanabria and artist Catalina Tuca. This conversation will be moderated by the exhibition’s curator Laura G. Gutiérrez. The panel will be followed by a reception. 

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About the Artist-in-Residence (AIR) Program

The Latinx Project’s Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program is open to emerging and mid-career artists based in the United States. As part of the AIR program, the selected artist will present a solo exhibition on campus and a public program. AIR are selected via open call each spring.

Participants

About the Participants:

Dalila Sanabria is a Chilean-Colombian-American artist from central Florida. Working primarily with sculpture and video, her work references domestic sites and sacred architectures, accumulating organic materials as catalysts for exploring displacement, permanence, and belonging. Sanabria has received an MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art, a BFA in Art, and a BA in Portuguese Studies from Brigham Young University. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, with recent exhibitions at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art in Salt Lake City, UT; Ortega y Gassett Projects in Brooklyn, New York City; Roman Susan Gallery in Chicago, IL, Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery in Philadelphia, PA; and the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans. Her work has been written about and mentioned in Art in America, Terremoto Magazine, SaltLakeUnderground Magazine, and Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. She is also the recipient of numerous awards and scholarships, being a Gilbert Fellow at Cranbrook Academy of Art, and participated in residencies and workshops at the Vermont Studio Center, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Sweet Pass Sculpture School, and ACRE (Artists’ Cooperate Residency & Exhibitions).

Laura G. Gutiérrez is Associate Professor in Latinx Studies in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies and Associate Dean for Community Engagement and Public Practice in the College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. Gutiérrez is the author of Performing Mexicanidad: Vendidas y Cabareteras on the Transnational Stage (recipient of an MLA book award) and has published on Latinx performance, border art, Mexican video art, and Mexican political cabaret. She was a Scholars Fellow at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles during the Fall of 2022 and a UT Provost Author’s Fellow from 2022-23, and thanks to these she was able to work on her manuscript entitled Binding Intimacies in Contemporary Queer Latinx Performance and Visual Art. In Austin, TX she also serves as the Artistic Director for OUTsider, a nonprofit queer and trans arts organization that programs an annual festival in the community.

Catalina Tuca (b. Santiago, Chile) is a multidisciplinary visual artist and educator, working in the intersections between geographic identities, collective memories, and hybrid systems of collaboration and participation. After earning a BFA and a degree in Visual Arts Education, she developed her career in Santiago, Chile by showing her work in solo and group exhibitions, teaching visual arts and film, and creating and directing art spaces. 

Tuca has had residencies at Youkobo Art Space (Japan); Taller 7 (Colombia); and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (United States). In 2016, she moved to the U.S. to pursue an MFA at Rutgers University, which she received in 2018. She has been a member at NEW INC (New York), a resident at NARS Foundation (New York), a fellow at the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program (New York), a resident with Collider Artist Residency at Contemporary Calgary (Canada), and a grantee of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (New York). She is currently an Adjunct Professor at Pratt Institute and NYU. Tuca lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Event Recap

Over time Central American studies have emerged as a response to increased migration from the isthmus and the formation of large Diaspora communities in the United States. As the field continues to grow and these communities continue to evolve, what are the new issues within the field that must be addressed and what interventions need to be made? What new directions does scholarship need to take to account for emerging categories of social and political identification within the Central American community?

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Participants

Maritza Cárdenas (she/her) is an Associate Professor of English and  former Interim Director of the Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry and the Global Studies program at the University of Arizona. She is also an affiliate faculty member in Gender and Women’s Studies, Latin American Studies, the Program in Social Cultural, Critical Theory, Institute of LGBTQ studies and an Executive Committee member for the Human Rights Practice Program.  She received her doctorate and master’s degree from the University of Michigan’s program of American Culture, and her bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California’s department in Comparative Literature. A recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellowship and the CMAS-Benson Latin American Research Fellowship, she is also the elected delegate of the Latina and Latino Literature section for the Modern Languages Association. Dr. Cárdenas is the author of Constituting Central American-Americans: Transnational Identities and the Politics of Dislocation (Rutgers 2018), which highlights the historical, socio-political processes that have facilitated the construction of a pan-ethnic transnational cultural identity (Central American) to emerge in the U.S. diaspora. 

Kency Cornejo is Associate Professor in the Department of Art at the University of New Mexico where she teaches Contemporary Latin American and Latinx Art Histories. Her teaching, research, and publications focus on contemporary art of Central America and its US-based diaspora, art and activism in Latin America, and decolonizing methodologies in art. Some of her publications on US/Central American art can be found in the Journal of Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture; Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies; Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies; and Art and Documentation, among others. She is author of the book Visual Disobedience: Art and Decoloniality in Central America, with Duke University Press (Oct 18, 2024), which analyzes thirty years of art and decoloniality in the isthmus. Her work has been supported by the Fulbright and Ford foundations, an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, a National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Award Grant, among others. She holds a PhD from Duke University, an MA from UT Austin, and BA from UCLA. Kency was born to Salvadoran immigrant parents and raised in Compton, California. 

Suyapa G. Portillo Villeda is Associate Professor of Chicana/o Latina/o Transnational Studies at Pitzer College. Her research and teaching priorities include Central American history, migration to the U.S., gender and labor in Central America, LGBTTI Latina/o populations and queer (im)migration in the Americas. Her work focuses on the intersections between labor, gender, ethnicity, race and other marginalized identities in workers’ lives in Central America and in the U.S. 

[Moderator] Paolo Aiello is a PhD candidate in the American Studies program at New York University. He received his B.A. Degrees in Spanish Lit. & Central American Studies from California State University Northridge, where he was awarded the HSI Pathways/Mellon Student Fellowship. His doctoral work has been supported by the NYU Migration Network as well as the NYU Latinx Project Public Humanities Fellowship. He is currently pursuing research related to testimonio, Central American migration, and immigrant coalitions and organizing.

Event Recap

Join us at La Feria: Print Media Fair for the launch of Intervenxions Vol. 3. The issue will be available for purchase from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. along with dozens of publications and art from independent creators. A reception to celebrate the latest printed volume and our contributors will take place from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. We hope to see you there!

Intervenxions is The Latinx Project’s digital publication. Since 2022, Intervenxions has published a printed volume to document the work of our collaborators. This year’s issue features 12 stories along the themes of ephemera, truth, and flight. 

The support of the Henry Luce Foundation, Ford Foundation, Critical Minded, and the Mellon Foundation made this printed volume and the work Intervenxions does possible. Read more about our new print volumes and national editorial board.

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Cover image: 
Juana Valdés. Redbone Colored China Rags, 2017. Bone china. Photograph by Zachary Balber.

Edited by: 
Yara Simón
Alex Santana
Orlando Ochoa

Designed by: 
Jessy V. Castillo

Collaborators: 
Joshua L. Gómez-Ortega
Vanessa González
Rojo Robles
Waleska del Valle Solórzano
Shellyne Rodriguez
Ruth Noelia Figueroa Couverture
Yansi de Abacoa
Myrriah Gómez
Michael De Anda Muniz
Alan Pelaez Lopez
Arlene Dávila
Andrés Olán Vázquez
Odette Casamayor
Adriana Zavala

Join us at La Feria: Print Media Fair on Saturday, September 21 featuring 30+ creators showcasing prints, posters, zines, art books and more. Free and open to the public. Please click here to RSVP.

Schedule: September 21, 2024

11am Doors open

2pm Artist-in-residence Exhibition Tour

3pm Reception x Intervenxions Vol. 3

5pm Doors close

+ All-day Academic Book Showcase

Address
20 Cooper Square, 3rd Floor

Exhibitors

Botánica Bodega | CENTRO | Christian Casas | Culture Crush Editions/Destiny Mata/Ricky Flores | Darinka Arones | Digging Press | diSONARE | Dolce Stil Criollo | Editorial Smol Books | Elijah Angelo Chavez | Espacio Seguro | Fotolibros de Puerto Rico | Francisco Donoso | frannypie | Gabriel Garcia Roman | Intervenxions | Jessica Elena Aquino | Kathysketches | Les and Inuer | Lourdes Bernard Studio | Lucía van Ryzin | Miguel Martinez | Mil Mundos Books | Mobile Print Power | ONTO | Oscar Diaz | Precog Magazine | Seaton Street Press | separatingskies | Terminal Ediciones | TU y YO | x_x

& Academic Book Showcase

About

The Latinx Project presents its first-ever print media fair featuring a mix of exhibitors. You'll find a range of zines, print media, works on paper, and artist prints by Latinx creators selected via open call at this one-day event. Alongside the participating artists and small publishers at La Feria, there will also be an academic book showcase with recent works. The event closes with a reception open to the public celebrating Intervenxions Vol. 3, a publication featuring original arts writing and criticism.

Accessibility

La Feria is committed to creating an accessible and safe environment for all visitors, exhibitors, and staff. Our third-floor exhibiting space is ADA compliant and fully accessible for wheelchair users. Additionally, we offer gender-neutral restrooms on the same floor.

Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with diverse and vibrant voices in our community!

Image Credit

Image of our exhibition El Zine: Contemporary Underground Archives curated by Barbara Calderón.

Photography by Itzel Alejandra

The Ideologies of “Good” Languaging Working Group hosts Dr. María Cristina Cioè-Peña for an online talk entitled “TrUDL: A path to anti-racist, anti-ableist inclusion.” This virtual event takes place Friday, September 20, 2024 from 11am-12pm EST.

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About Dr. María Cristina Cioè-Peña

María Cioè-Peña (Penn Graduate School of Education) is a bilingual/biliterate education researcher and educator who examines the intersections of disability, language, school–parent partnerships, and education policy. Taking a sociolinguistic approach and stance, she pushes and reimagines the boundaries of inclusive spaces for minoritized children. Stemming from her experiences as a former bilingual special education teacher, Dr. Cioè-Peña’s research focuses on bilingual children with dis/abilities, their families, and their ability to access multilingual and inclusive learning spaces within public schools. Her interests are deeply rooted in political economy, raciolinguistic perspectives and critical dis/ability awareness within schools and families. Learn more about her current research.

About the Working Group

The Ideologies of "Good" Languaging Working Group is organized and led by María Rosa Brea-Spahn (Steinhardt Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders) and Erica Saldívar-Garcia (Steinhardt Department of Teaching and Learning). This interdisciplinary affinity group brings together faculty and doctoral students across the departments of Communicative Sciences and Disorders and Teaching and Learning to co-create spaces of inquiry, collaborative learning, and community centered transformation by interrogating ideological orientations about language, race, and ability that characterize policies, curricular materials, and practices.

We invite you to save the date for the opening of our fall 2024 Artist-in-Residence exhibition titled "This will pass" curated by Laura G. Gutiérrez featuring new work by Dalila Sanabria. The opening will take place on September 14, 2024 at 20 Cooper Square, 4th floor.

To learn more about Dalila Sanabria and her work follow the Q+A with the curator here.

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Artist Bio:

Dalila Sanabria is a Chilean-Colombian-American artist from central Florida. Working primarily with sculpture and video, her work references domestic sites and sacred architectures, accumulating organic materials as catalysts for exploring displacement, brownness, and belonging. Sanabria has received an MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art, a BFA in Art, and a BA in Portuguese Studies from Brigham Young University. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, with recent exhibitions at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art in Salt Lake City, UT; Ortega y Gassett Projects in Brooklyn, New York City; Roman Susan Gallery in Chicago, IL, Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery in Philadelphia, PA; and the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans. Her work has been written about and mentioned in Art in America, Terremoto Magazine, and Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. She is also the recipient of numerous awards and scholarships, being a Gilbert Fellow at Cranbrook Academy of Art, and participated in residencies and workshops at the Vermont Studio Center, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Sweet Pass Sculpture School, and ACRE (Artists’ Cooperate Residency & Exhibitions).

Curator Bio:

Laura G. Gutiérrez is Associate Professor in Latinx Studies in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies and Associate Dean for Community Engagement and Public Practice in the College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. Gutiérrez is the author of Performing Mexicanidad: Vendidas y Cabareteras on the Transnational Stage (recipient of an MLA book award) and has published on Latinx performance, border art, Mexican video art, and Mexican political cabaret. She was a Scholars Fellow at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles during the Fall of 2022 and a UT Provost Author’s Fellow from 2022-23, and thanks to these she was able to work on her manuscript entitled Binding Intimacies in Contemporary Queer Latinx Performance and Visual Art. In Austin, TX she also serves as the Artistic Director for OUTsider, a nonprofit queer and trans arts organization that programs an annual festival in the community.

About the Artist-in-Residence (AIR) Program

The Latinx Project’s Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program is open to emerging and mid-career artists based in the United States. As part of the AIR program, the selected artist will present a solo exhibition on campus and a public program. AIR are selected via open call each spring.

The Artist-in-Residence program is a flagship of The Latinx Project. Past A.I.R. exhibitions have featured the work of artists Estelle Maisonett, Mildred Beltré, Pachi Muruchu, Mary Valverde, William Camargo, Vick Quezada, and Shellyne Rodriguez. 

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The fall 2024 Artist-in-Residence exhibition is made possible with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The Latinx Project will organize and host its first print media fair on Saturday, September 21, 2024. As part of the fair, we would like to organize an interdisciplinary showcase of academic books published within the last three years in Latinx Studies.

Books will be displayed as part of a communal showcase table. If you would like to participate, please mail one copy of your book, a flyer or purchase details (if you have one), and a note for the organizers with your contact information and social media handles (if you would like to be tagged in any posts).

Submitted books can be picked up in person after the fair or donated to the center’s nascent book collection. We do not have the capacity to return books via mail. 

Please try to put your book in the mail by August 15, 2024 so that we can collect and organize the texts in early September for display. Local authors will be invited to attend the fair; there may be opportunities to sell additional copies at the communal table or sign books. 

We encourage exhibitors of independent publishing, zines, prints, or works on paper to click here to learn more about participation in the fair.

Mailing address:

NYU Latinx Project

20 Cooper Sq., 3rd Fl

New York, NY 10003

Inquiries: Please email latinxproject@nyu.edu with Academic Book Showcase in the subject line.