Queer Latinx Art Symposium

Friday, 20th of June at the John F. Kennedy Institute of the Freie Universität Berlin. 

This one-day symposium of performances, workshops, and presentations brings together interdisciplinary artists, scholars, cultural agents, and theorists of Queer Latinx art. 

Vick Quezada will perform their work Third Generation, mowing the lawn of a park in the city of Berlin as part of their close examination of the invisibilized fixtures that exist within the landscape in relation to laboring bodies of color. 

Francisco Godoy Vega will present “Politics for the recovery of the stolen time” a combination of a traditional academic presentation and collage workshop.

Alexis Salas will present the talk “Plant Papi Politics: Latinx Queer Artists Re-grounding Nature” discussing connections of brown and queer people with the earth through the practices of a number of contemporary artists. 

Location

John-F.-Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies

Lansstraße 7-9, Berlin-Dahlem

Room 340

Schedule (Central European Summer Time) (GMT+2)

Welcome: 09.30-10.00

Session I: 10.00-12.00

Francisco Godoy Vega (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

Politics for the Recovery of the Stolen Time

Lunch: 12.00-13.30

Session II: 13.30-15.30

TBA 

Break: 15.30-15.45

Session III: 15.45-16.45

Vick Quezada (Hampshire College)

Beyond the Machine

Break: 16.45-17.00

Session IV: 17.00-18.00

Alexis Salas (Freie Universität Berlin/University of Arkansas)

Plant Papi Politics: Latinx Queer Artists Re-grounding Nature

Performance: 18.00-19.00

Vick Quezada (Hampshire College)

Third Generation: A Performance