II Latin American Meeting of Art Archives

The National Museum of Fine Arts will participate in the II Latin American Meeting of Arts Archives to share its experiences with art, theater and music archives, which will take place between October 3 and 4. The meeting is organized by the Faculty of Arts of the Catholic University and brings together researchers from Chile, Costa Rica, Argentina, Colombia, Cuba and Mexico.

The call was made under five thematic axes: Training and learning, Gender and diversity perspective, Decolonizing the archive and archiving, Memory and human rights, and Access and preservation of digital documents. According to Anita María Moreno, executive producer of the Meeting, more than 70 presentations were received from different countries.

The Meeting will begin with a keynote talk by Ana Longoni, who is a writer, curator, researcher and academic at the University of Buenos Aires highlighted for her work on the intersections between art and politics in Argentina and Latin America.

After the keynote talk, 25 exhibitions organized according to thematic axes will be presented. Between each of the axes, 11 videos will be presented that make a project visible.

On October 3 (14:15 - 15:30 Chile | 11:15 - 12:30 Mexico), the head of the CEDOC MNBA Alejandra Wolff will moderate table 2, belonging to the axis Decolonizing the Archive and Archivistics. It will feature the participation of:

- Emilio Suárez González (Cuba): “The collection of photographs by Américo Castellanos. “A graphic testimony of the Cuban buffo theater.”
- Sibila Sotomayor Van Rysseghem (Chile): “Archive/Action: a feminist and decolonial approach.”
- Kevin Pérez M. (Costa Rica): “Fighting with the elements: making and teaching memory about contemporary art in Costa Rica and Central America.”

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