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GUERRILLA

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 12 pm

— Video art as an activist tool to construct identities

GUERRILLA
Participants
Sylwia Serafinowicz, Paula Nishijima and Lily Hall
Moderator
Antonio Monegal
Date and hours
Tuesday 20 November 2018, 12 pm Add to calendar
Additional info
Meeting in Sala 1

The eternal question about the political role of art is increasingly present in production processes. The idea of “guerrilla” productions that combine art with sort of activist endeavours is not new, but its strong presence in institutional circles today is remarkable. Often quoted in fundraising applications as a metric of success and in fundraising strategies as a declaration of intentions, the social and political role of art is undoubtedly used as a tool. But to what extent is an activist tool that fosters the shaping of identities? Can we still speak about “guerrilla” productions or is the political power of art being instrumentalised in favour of neoliberal solutionism? What is the role and weight of video art production in this context? This debate aims to critically address the idea of video art production as an activist tool.

Sylwia Serafinowicz

Sylwia  Serafinowicz

Dr Sylwia Serafinowicz is a Curator at a/political, a London-based non-profit organisation supporting politically and socially-engaged artists, and a regular contributor to Artforum magazine. She curated numerous exhibitions, including Shikeith: This Was His Body/ His Body Finally His (2017), Ewa Axelrad: Shtamah (2017), Wild at Heart (2018), Labor Relations (2016), Punxdefektuozoz: Dr Lakra and Laureana Toledo (2015). Prior to a/political, she collaborated with the festival Art Night 2017, The Institute of Contemporary Arts and The Whitechapel Gallery in London, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and was a Collections Curator at the Wroclaw Contemporary Museum (2014 – 2017) in Poland.
She received her PhD in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London in 2015 and an MA in History of Art from the University of Warsaw in 2009. She is a member of the AICA UK.

Paula Nishijima

Moderator, Participant
Paula  Nishijima

Paula Nishijima is a visual artist and researcher from São Paulo/Brazil. Her research-led practice often unfolds through long periods of time and on the crossroads of academia, institutional critic and a participatory social practice. She studies the duality between producer and consumer and its ramifications in nature and health. Her narratives question personal and collective motivations with a psychoanalytic tone through happenings, video and photography.
Paula combines her artistic practice with her editorial work through independent editorial projects. She is part of the  translocalia.com —a network of artists, designers, curators, audiences and professionals from different domains to discuss, share and plan for the future through art. She holds an MA in Arts and culture from the Leiden University, Netherlands and a BA in Visual Arts from the Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, São Paulo,
Brazil.

Lily Hall

Participant
Lily Hall

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