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Intervenxions is an online publication of TLP that features original writings, criticism, and interviews exploring contemporary Latinx Art, Politics, & Culture.
The Drumbeat, la ciudad y la Descarga: The Plurality of Willie Perdomo’s “The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon”
The plurality of Perdomo’s work demands that readers see New York and Puerto Rico coexisting as transnational, bringing the drumbeat of academic Angel Quintero Rivera’s concept of salsa as “música contestaría” to the barrio, where his and other poets’ voices become el tambor that breaks the silence of the struggle for identity.
Earth Power, Cosmic Principles, and Elemental Wisdom: An Interview with Vanessa Ehecatl Santos
Read an interview with Interdisciplinary Indigenous Disabled Artist Vanessa Ehecatl Santos on the mission of Terra Heaven Eco-Arts Education and their newest short story “Mayan A.I.”
Entre Puerto Rico y Richmond: A Conversation on Embodied Decolonial Creation with Alicia Díaz & Patricia Herrera
The award-winning experimental film repurposes an old tobacco factory and pays homage to radical historical figures Dominga de la Cruz Becerril and Luisa Capetillo.
The Women of April: An Interview with Lourdes Bernard
The artist’s research-based group of works on paper commemorate the upcoming 57th anniversary of the April 1965 revolution and U.S. invasion of the Dominican Republic.
Disarming Loss: An Interview with Selva Aparicio
The artist discusses her recent exhibition, “Ode to the Unclaimed Dead,” and the broader examination of grief within her art practice amid pandemic and war.
In Search of The Infinite: What We Learn from Juan Arango Palacios’ Paintings
In the painting “Group Selfie,” the artist invites the viewer “to search for the infinite within the multiple selves that exist in the mirror.”
In Conversation with Artists Marisol T. Martinez & C.J. Chueca
Reframing the Border: An Interview with Francisco Donoso
The Bronx-based Ecuadorian artist discusses the evolution of their recent site-specific installation, which challenges spectators to face the border as a structure of oppression and separation.
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Afro-Latinx Studies
Alford’s clarity about the relevance of Blackness to Latinx identity serves as a balm for feeling invisible to raceless Latina authors.
The ‘NEGRITA’ doc uses the racial descriptor as an entry point to discuss the lasting effects of colonialism in Latin America, the Caribbean, and its diasporas
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