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Feb
15
2016

Identities as Multiplicities and New Configurations

When: Monday, February 15, 2016
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM CT

Where: Evanston Public Library - 1st Fl. Community Room, 1703 Orrington Ave, Evanston, IL 60201

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Contact: Carlos Octavio Ballinas   (847) 467-3980

Group: The Latina and Latino Studies Program

Category: Academic

Description:

Presenter: Interdisciplinary Artist, Sonia A. Baez-Hernandez

In this presentation, Interdisciplinary Artist, Sonia A. Baez-Hernandez employs the multiplicities of identities to account for her artistic expression. Sonia contextualizes her visual art and performance arts at the edge of the gathering of memories marked by cultural differences, heterogeneous histories, displacements, movements of territories and deterritorialization, radicalized/ethnic corporality and foreign accents... Immigrants and those who claim multiple identities are always situated in relation to the outside, in localized situations, in heterogeneity, transformation, social formation, and rapture. The multiplicities of identities open up the possibilities to enunciate possible communities, new consciousness, and forms of contestation, political solidarity, and artistic expressions.

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