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California Countercultures: Ana Mendieta: Decolonialized Feminist and Artist with Laura Pérez

Lecture | March 22 | 12 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor:  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Laura E. Pérez is associate professor of ethnic studies, core faculty in performance studies, and an affiliated faculty of both gender and women’s studies and the Center for Latin American Studies at UC Berkeley. Pérez is the author of Chicana Art: The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities. She curated UC Berkeley's first and only US Latina/o performance art series in 2001–2 and Labor + a(r)t + orio: Bay Area Latin@ Arts Now at the Richmond Art Center in 2011; and cocurated, with Delilah Montoya, the multimedia exhibition Chicana Badgirls: Las Hociconas at 516 ARTS gallery in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 2009. She has published in numerous anthologies on feminism, Chicana/o and hemispheric decolonial cultures, and Chicana/o religiosity, as well as journals and exhibition catalogs.

Tickets not required: Admission to this lecture is free.

Event contact:  510-642-0808