Celebrated visual artist Tania Bruguera presents work in conjunction with the exhibition Sin Autorización: Contemporary Cuban Art. Introduced by Betti-Sue Hertz, Director and Chief Curator, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery.

Bruguera researches ways in which art can be applied to everyday political life, focusing on the transformation of social affect into political effectiveness. Her long-term projects have been intensive interventions on the institutional structure of collective memory, education, and politics.

Bruguera earned her MFA in performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the founder and director of Cátedra Arte de Conducta (Behavior Art School), the first performance studies program in Latin America. Bruguera’s work has been exhibited at documenta 11, the Guggenheim Museum, and Tate Modern and also at the Bienal Iberoamericana de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, the Gwangju Biennale, the Istanbul Biennial, and Shanghai Biennale. Her work is in the permanent collections of many institutions around the world, including the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana, and the Museum of Modern Art, in New York.

Co-presented by the Institute for Latin American Studies; the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery; and the School of the Arts Visual Arts Program.

Claudia Patricia Perez Olivera for INSTAR

INSTAR,
2022
Installation with archival materials from the Hannah Arendt Institute of Artivism’s (INSTAR’s) activity since 2015. Project created and directed by Tania Bruguera
Dimensions variable