Human Rights Program and Center for Curatorial Studies Present

The Keith Haring Lecture in Art and Activism: Valentina Rozas-Krause

Feminimonuments: Feminist Transformations of ‘Difficult Monuments’ during the recent Chilean Social Upheaval

Only 4.7% of Santiago’s monuments represent women, a grim statistic that is echoed in cities around the world. Yet in the heat of the chilean social upheaval (2019-20), protesters and women’s groups took the problem of female representation into their own hands. Guided by an intersectional lens, this presentation analyzes monuments of ‘difficult heritage’ in two Chilean cities, Santiago and Valparaíso, to understand how they were transformed physically and symbolically into sites of feminist solidarity. The stakes are high, together these monuments speak about European colonization, the nation-state, the ongoing conflict with indigenous populations, past and present violence against women, as well as the oversight of feminine historical agency. Each case represents a typology of monument-appropriation, and its analysis will help to unravel a counter-archive of possibilities for female representation in public space.

The Keith Haring Chair in Art and Activism is made possible through a grant from the Keith Haring Foundation. The Keith Haring Chair is a cross-disciplinary, annual, visiting faculty appointment for a scholar, activist, or artist to teach and conduct research at both the Center for Curatorial Studies and the Human Rights Project at Bard College. The Keith Haring Chair in Art and Activism was established to allow a distinguished leader in the field to investigate the role of art as a catalyst for social change, linking the two programs and presenting original research in an annual lecture.

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For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected],
or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/events/1194-the-keith-haring-lecture-in-art-and-activism-valentina-rozas-krause.

Time: 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5

Location: CCS Bard, Classroom 102

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