Insurgent Figurations: the (formal) contours of anti-imperialist subjectivities in visual culture produced in/about nicaragua (since 1979)

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Interdisciplinary Centers, Units and Projects::Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships (CURF)::Spring Research Symposium
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History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology
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Central America, visual culture
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2025-05-09
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Logan Li Saenz
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The following project explores a series of questions about art and revolution in the Nicaraguan social-historical context: How might visualities contribute to the production, or materialization, of “concrete political” subjects? What formal tactics were leveraged in conversation with historical contingencies to develop such a radical aesthetic enterprise, of humanist character? How can we re-evaluate visual forms as both objects and subjects of historical transformation — and thus as critical social technologies? What can we excavate from art objects about the inner circuits and interiorities — the spaces of subject formation — of imperialist domination and anti-imperialist struggle? Do images circulating (with)in the world work on the world . . . make revolution?

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Hannah Feldman
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2025-04-11
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The Mary L. And Matthew S. Santirocco College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant, for projects in classics, humanities, or biomedical studies.
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