Join us for a talk by Professor Giullermina De Ferrari, University of Wisconsin-Madison on Care is the New Revolution
In an emergency, sheltering others can level the odds of survival. Sharing material and affective resources is a deliberate effort to counteract misfortune together. When catastrophes are man-made, hospitality is a political act. In this presentation I analyze art, performance and installations by contemporary Cuban artists to explore how hospitality art erodes inhospitable political structures, reinvents the social sphere through temporary alliances and unexpected intimacies. I suggest that hospitality art in Cuba is both an experiment in democratic solidarity and a new articulation of the good life.
Guillermina De Ferrari is Professor of Spanish and Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow. She is the author of Vulnerable States: Bodies of Memory in Contemporary Caribbean Fiction (2007), Community and Culture in Post-Soviet Cuba (2014), and Apertura: Photography in Cuba Today (2015). She co-edited The Routledge Companion to 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American Literary and Cultural Forms (2022).
Location: Humanities Conference Room, 623 Williams Hall (255 S. 36th Street)