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Magic Studies

Jun 15, 2016
6:30–8 pm

New York, NY, USA
ICI Curatorial Hub

401 Broadway, Suite 1620
New York, NY 10013

FREE and open to the public


Curatorial Intensive alumna Soledad García Saavedra, along with artists Brandon LaBelle and Cecilia Vicuña, will lead an open seminar titled Magic Studies.

Inspired by the enigmatic and suggestive notions of the haunted and the disappeared, the seminar will examine the powers and poetics of magic. Magic Studies will draw upon works and perspectives from Magic Block (January 18-March 2, 2016), the exhibition and accompanying publication of contemporary Chilean art, curated and edited by García and LaBelle. Central to the seminar is a concern for the ways in which social struggles may find support through practices that rely upon the resonances of bodily performance, indigenous or ancestral beliefs, or forms of the black arts. Using examples of recent Chilean art and poetry, among others, Magic Studies will reveal the complex legacies and related “ghostings” of particular histories, forgotten or unknown voices, as well as the pathways found through imaginative means that enable acts of resistance and sharing in artistic and curatorial practices.


This event is free and open to the public. To attend, please RSVP to rsvp@curatorsintl.org with MAGIC in the subject line.

Presenters
Soledad García Saavedra

Soledad García Saavedra is an art historian and curator.

Brandon LaBelle

Brandon LaBelle is an artist, writer and theorist working with questions of social life and cultural agency, using sound, performance, text and sited constructions.

Cecilia Vicuña

Cecilia Vicuña is a poet, performer, and sound and visual artist, who coined the concept of arte precario (or "precarious art") in the 1960s in response to pressing concerns of the modern world, including ecological destruction, human rights, and cultural homogenization.


Credits 

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.