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Beatriz Santiago Muñoz to visit GVSU in February
January 20, 2017
Continuing the lecture series "Art and The Radical", the Department of Art and Design hosts its third event on Wednesday, February 1st, 2017, 6:30 p.m., at Civic Studio (336 Straight Avenue SW, Grand Rapids). The unit is proud to welcome Beatriz Santiago Muñoz to campus. She is the third visiting artist in this year's lecture series "Art and the Radical", a program featuring creative workers whose projects deepen our understanding of the world by revealing alternate histories, highlighting marginalized communities, and challenging widely held beliefs and traditions.
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz is an artist based in San Juan, Puerto Rico whose work explores recuperation from trauma, regeneration, affect, and the ways in which our connections to the past are actively produced, maintained, and refuted. The uncontrived, observational style of her art aligns it with the sensibility of documentary film, while also blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction. Despite its ostensible simplicity, Santiago Muñoz’s work stems from intensive research, and demonstrates her concern for the role of the camera as a linguistic, political, and conceptual frame through which actions or events are seen.
Santiago Muñoz visits Grand Rapids and GVSU while preparing for the 2017 Whitney Biennial, and amidst recent projects at Serpentine Gallery in London, Sullivan Galleries in Chicago, El Museo del Barrio and the New Museum in New York, and the Institute for New Connotative Action in Seattle.
For more information on her work, please visit the two websites below:
Santiago Muñoz's presentation starts the winter leg of the "Art and The Radical Series". The last speaker in the program will be Jeanne Vaccaro. Vaccaro is a writer and curator working at the intersection of performance, visual culture, feminist art and archives, histories of the body, and queer studies. Her lecture date and time will be announced soon.