University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is hosting an art history lecture on March 5, 2025, from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., at 112 Davie Hall, 235 E Cameron Avenue, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
The lecture is free and open to the community.
The speaker will be Dr. Kency Cornejo, of UCLA. The topic is “Reimagining Liberation: Visual Disobedience in Central American Art.”
A weeknight or daytime permit is now required after 5:00 pm on weekdays. No permit is required from 5:00 pm Friday through 7:30 am Monday. A $1.00 one-night pass is available in selected lots. More information can be found here.
In this lecture, Dr. Kency Cornejo traces the emergence of new artistic strategies for Indigenous, feminist, and anticarceral resistance in the wake of torture, disappearance, killings, and US-funded civil wars in Central America. Drawing on interviews with Central American artists and curators, she theorizes a form of “visual disobedience” in which art operates in opposition to nation-states, colonialism, and visual coloniality, offering new imaginaries of liberation in the isthmus.
Dr. Kency Cornejo is Associate Professor of Latinx/Latin American Art and Expressive Culture in the Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies at UCLA. She is a scholar of contemporary and modern Latin American art history, with emphasis on Central America and its diaspora. She offers a variety of undergraduate and graduate art history courses. Dr. Cornejo’s teaching and research interests focus on a wide range of topics, including: art and politics, decoloniality, femicide, immigration, prisons, captivity, transnationalism, gangs, and indigenous rights and epistemologies. Cornejo’s book Visual Disobedience: The Geopolitics of Experimental Art in Central America, 1990-Present (Duke University Press, 2024) critically analyzes twenty-five years of contemporary art in post-war Central America.
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