Postponed: Yina Jiménez Suriel in conversation with Natalia Brizuela
Postponed: Curator Yina Jiménez Suriel in conversation with Natalia Brizuela, Professor of Film & Media and Spanish & Portuguese, Thursday, October 19, 2023, 5–6 pm The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of California, Berkeley: 2334 Bowditch St, Berkeley, CA 94720 Curator Yina Jiménez Suriel will discuss her curatorial process and research project la historia de las montañas (the history of the mountains) , which examines emancipation, perceptual systems beyond the human, and the creation of new imaginaries outside/beyond Western structures. The conversation is part of a series of programs for the exhibition de montañas submarinas el fuego hace islas (on view at KADIST San Francisco from October 13, 2023–February 17, 2024) that explores the concept of freedom through sensory experiences, alternate and altered realities, and interspecies relationships between human and non-human entities. Natalia Brizuela is Professor of Film & Media and Spanish & Portuguese and Faculty Director and Chair at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of California. This is one of two public programs taking place at and in partnership with the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of California, Berkeley during the course of the exhibition. A conversation between Yina Jiménez Suriel and Andrea Gomez, Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology will take place on February 8, 2024. Yina Jiménez Suriel is a curator and researcher and the TBA21–Academy The Current IV Curatorial Fellow, a three-year research project entitled otras montañas, las que andan sueltas bajo el agua. She is Adjunct Curator of the 14th Mercosul Biennial (2024), Associate Editor of the magazine Contemporary And (C&) for Latin America and the Caribbean. She is part of the curatorial team for Opening at ArcoMadrid (2023-2024). She has contributed to various international art publications and artist catalogs. Natalia Brizuela is Professor of Film & Media and Spanish & Portuguese and Faculty Director and Chair, The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of California, Berkeley