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A Conversation with Marina Reyes Franco, Thomas Lax, Miguel López, and Thiago de Paula Souza

PRESENTERS: Marina Reyes Franco, Curator, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico (MAC), San Juan
Thomas Lax, Curator, Media and Performance, MoMA, New York
Miguel López, Writer and Independent Curator, Lima
Thiago de Paula Souza, Independent Curator and Educator, São Paulo

MODERATORS:
Irene Small, Art & Archaeology, Princeton University
Angela Brown, Art & Archaeology, Princeton University
Elise Chagas, Art & Archaeology, Princeton University

**THIS EVENT IS PART OF THE SERIES:

Cura Continua: Art, Curating, and Practices of Radical Care II
A series of dialogues co-sponsored by the Program in Latin American Studies and the Department of Art & Archaeology**

The word “curate” commonly describes the professional management, selection, and presentation of works of art. But the term’s etymology lies in the Latin curare, meaning to care for, to heal, to cure. This series of conversations underscores the critical significance of these connotations within contemporary artistic practices in Latin America and its diasporas. To curate, in this sense, is not simply to care for works of art. It is to care for relations between artists, institutions, and histories; to attend to discontinuities in these relations; to weave and sustain networks; to navigate institutional structures in ways that allow for opacity and insurgency alike. Departing from their own practices of radical care within the curatorial field, speakers will address topics including the transformative role of museums and archives; the hemispheric and cross-racial commitments of Latin American and Latinx art; the imperatives of feminist, queer, anti-racist, and decolonial thought; and strategies of forming and imagining artistic community.

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This event is free and open to the public.