Who is talking about Art?

An intervention from a transdecolonial perspective into arts
IBK IKL

Ort | Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Institutsgebäude, Karl-Schweighofergasse 3, 1070 Wien, 3.06

Lecture organized by Marina Grzinic, Post-Conceptual Study Program (IBK) and Elke Krasny, Fachbereich Kunst und Bildung (IKL) and Noit Banai, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Universität Wien. Moderation of the talks after the lectures by artist and activist Marissa Lôbo.

Lía Garcia (La Novia) is a transgender woman that born in Mexico City. She studied pedagogy at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the National Autonomous University of Mexico doing the research “Possibilities and crosses between pedagogy, art and queer feminism”. Now she is currently finishing the master?s degree in visual arts at the School of Arts and Design UNAM. His interests have focused on doing her own gender transition a festive pedagogy, an emotional and sharing encounter in the space and a proposal of communication in the public space. She was selected as a participating artist in the convergence 2015 Hemispheric Institute of Performance: Collective in captivity: Encouraging cross-border bodies. He has collaborated with artists such as Guillermo Gomez Peña and La Pocha Nostra, Felipe LechedeVirgen Trimegisto, Sayak Valencia and Paola Paz Yee.