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We are thrilled to announce our first 2024 LLSP Lecture Series, where we’ll be hosting a dynamic conversation with Dr. Denise Ferreira da Silva, a Samuel Rudin Professor in the Humanities at the Department of Spanish & Portuguese, and Co-Director of the Critical Racial & Anti-Colonial Study Co-Lab at New York University.

In this talk Dr. Ferreira Da Silva will comment on the contemporary art scene under the guidance of (the work of) contemporary Brazilian artists who explicitly comment on the workings of the colonial, racial, cisheteropatriarchal matrix. Taking their critic of colonial, racial, and cisheteropatriachal subjugation as a guide for our thinking about the present, we’ll experiment with an approach to the aesthetic that departs from the usual descriptive (atheoretical descriptions of the work and/or practice) and/or comprehensive (conceptually informed analysis of the work and/or practice; instead, we’ll discuss the artworks and artistic practices. By attending primarily to the work themselves – to their form, materials as well as any written, sonic, or visual statements – the artists’ articulation of their intention as well as any commentary they make on the contemporary art scene or the work of other artists will also be taken into account.