Emplaced Art in the Americas : Creating Change Through Materiality

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What does it mean to think about art, place, history and meaning making in the Americas? What kinds of visualities, imaginaries, and memories guide how we imagine South America, Chile? What are the roles of art, video, performance, and memorials as sites of emplacing memory, collective witness, creating future possibilities? Our thinking, making, and engagement is guided by social, cultural, feminist, and environmental movements and explore modes of sensing, creating, feeling and being with the land through Indigenous, migrant, “expert” and local knowledge and place. How are these projects raced and gendered? What kinds of aesthetics and art projects inform our own understandings of emplaced learning? This course invites us to think with creators and place. It will support and guide you towards making and living with art as a way to perceive with and beyond neoliberal and colonial logics.