Beatriz Santiago Muñoz's (b. 1972, San Juan, Puerto Rico) residency and exhibition at the New Museum will be presented in the Fifth Floor gallery as part of the Education and Public Engagement Department's R&D Season: LEGACY.
Santiago Muñoz's engagement with LEGACY grapples with the ways in which our connections to the past are actively produced, maintained, and refuted, with an eye to utopian communities, institutional histories, and social choreographies. In this exhibition, she will premiere a new body of work, including a series of 16mm portraits of anthropologists, activists, and artists working in Haiti and Puerto Rico. Her projects blur the lines between ethnography, fiction, and documentary film and examine the symbolic and material histories of the local communities she observes with her camera.
Santiago Muñoz's films capture the aspirations and imagined futures of dissidents, feminists, and political organizers who are deeply invested in alternative models of being, using them as allegories...for larger political possibilities in the region.
This exhibition is co-curated by Johanna Burton, Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Engagement, and Lauren Cornell, Curator and Associate Director, Technology Initiatives, with Sara O'Keeffe, Assistant Curator.
Entrada actualizada el el 18 abr de 2016
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