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ENGLISH:<\/span><\/p>\n

Talking to Action: Art, Pedagogy, and<\/span><\/i> Activism in the Americas<\/span><\/i> is a collective effort to foreground the reciprocity of teaching and learning inherent in art making and to demonstrate ties between practices across distinct regions that bring together similar ways of working. Developing collaborative relationships with communities and other cultural workers, the artists featured in this exhibition not only investigate social and political concerns across the vast territory of the Americas, but also share a dialogical method of working that is foregrounded in the installations on view. The result of this ongoing research features drawings, sculptures, photography, video, film, and archival material that blur the lines between performative actions, object making, and political activism. They also reveal a distinctly decolonial perspective with regards to lived historical and contemporary sociopolitical contexts.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the United States, the relatively new term of Social Practice is being used to define and professionalize a contemporary genre of art that has historical antecedents in an earlier generation of community-driven artists. Such an all-encompassing term does not exist in Latin America, though social-activist efforts have often been grounded in aesthetic commitments. Nevertheless, the important work of investigating and historicizing these practices across the Americas is ongoing.<\/span><\/p>\n

The history of community-based art in Latin America is long and varied, but key events and thinkers emerge as signposts. These include the pedagogical theories of Paulo Freire, the closely aligned Liberation Theology movement of privileging the oppressed within the Catholic Church, and the large and decentralized post-war decolonial movements that guided social scientists to take on new research in efforts to better understand their hemisphere. Those interconnected methods were later influential on a wide range of cultural actors in the United States including Chicano and Feminist artists and intellectuals. Within this rich cultural history, the relationships connecting hemispheric efforts amongst artists and researchers across the Americas has yet to be closely considered.<\/span><\/p>\n

The artworks in this exhibition are anchored in a dialogical praxis and a lineage of research. This legacy emerges from the southern part of our hemisphere and has a stake in how we understand art, pedagogy, and activism throughout the Americas. <\/span><\/p>\n

– Bill Kelley Jr., Curator<\/span><\/p>\n

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ESPA\u00d1OL:<\/span><\/p>\n

Hablar y actuar: Arte, pedagog\u00eda y activismo en las Am\u00e9ricas<\/span><\/i> es un esfuerzo colectivo para poner en primer plano la reciprocidad de la ense\u00f1anza y el aprendizaje inherentes a la creaci\u00f3n art\u00edstica y demostrar v\u00ednculos entre las pr\u00e1cticas en diferentes regiones que re\u00fanen modos similares de trabajo. Desarrollando relaciones de colaboraci\u00f3n con las comunidades y otros trabajadores culturales, los artistas que figuran en esta exposici\u00f3n no s\u00f3lo investigan las preocupaciones sociales y pol\u00edticas en el vasto territorio de las Am\u00e9ricas, sino que tambi\u00e9n comparten un m\u00e9todo dial\u00f3gico de trabajo que se destaca en las instalaciones que se muestran aqu\u00ed. El resultado de esta investigaci\u00f3n en curso muestra dibujos, esculturas, fotograf\u00eda, v\u00eddeo, cine y materiales de archivo que borran los l\u00edmites entre las acciones performativas, la creaci\u00f3n de objetos y el activismo pol\u00edtico. Tambi\u00e9n revelan una perspectiva claramente descolonial con respecto a los contextos sociopol\u00edticos vividos hist\u00f3ricamente y en la contemporaneidad. <\/span><\/p>\n

En los Estados Unidos, el t\u00e9rmino relativamente nuevo de Social Practice (pr\u00e1ctica social) se utiliza para definir y profesionalizar un g\u00e9nero de arte contempor\u00e1neo que tiene antecedentes hist\u00f3ricos en una generaci\u00f3n previa de artistas impulsados por la comunidad. No existe un t\u00e9rmino tan amplio en Am\u00e9rica Latina, a pesar de que los esfuerzos de activistas sociales se han basado a menudo en compromisos est\u00e9ticos. Sin embargo, contin\u00faa el importante trabajo de investigar e historizar estas pr\u00e1cticas en las Am\u00e9ricas.<\/span><\/p>\n

La historia del arte comunitario en Am\u00e9rica Latina es larga y variada, pero eventos y pensadores surgen como marcadores claves. Estos incluyen las teor\u00edas pedag\u00f3gicas de Paulo Freire, el movimiento alineado de Teolog\u00eda de la Liberaci\u00f3n que busca privilegiar a los oprimidos dentro de la Iglesia cat\u00f3lica, y los grandes y descentralizados movimientos descoloniales de posguerra que guiaron a los cient\u00edficos sociales a emprender nuevas investigaciones para entender mejor su hemisferio. Esos m\u00e9todos interconectados fueron m\u00e1s tarde influyentes en una amplia gama de actores culturales en los Estados Unidos, incluyendo artistas e intelectuales chicanos y feministas. Dentro de esta rica historia cultural, las relaciones que conectan los esfuerzos hemisf\u00e9ricos entre artistas e investigadores a trav\u00e9s de las Am\u00e9ricas a\u00fan no se han considerado detenidamente. <\/span><\/p>\n

Las obras de arte en esta exposici\u00f3n est\u00e1n ancladas en una praxis dial\u00f3gica y en un linaje de investigaci\u00f3n. Este legado surge desde el sur de nuestro hemisferio y se destaca en c\u00f3mo entendemos el arte, la pedagog\u00eda y el activismo en las Am\u00e9ricas.<\/span><\/p>\n

– Bill Kelley Jr., Curador<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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