Tania Bruguera: "Hablándole al poder”. An Exhibition at Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City

Authors

  • Raquel Schefer Universidade de Lisboa (Centro de Estudos Comparatistas)/ University of the Western Cape

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14591/aniki.v6n1.528

Keywords:

Tania Bruguera, artistic activism, “useful art”, aesthetics and politics

Abstract

Critical review of the retrospective exhibition of Tania Bruguera "Hablándole al poder,” held at Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) in Mexico City from May to September 2018.

Author Biography

Raquel Schefer, Universidade de Lisboa (Centro de Estudos Comparatistas)/ University of the Western Cape

Raquel Schefer is a researcher, a filmmaker, and a film curator. She holds a Ph.D. in Film and Audiovisual Studies from Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 University, with a dissertation on Mozambican revolutionary cinema, a Master in Documentary Cinema from the University of Cinema of Buenos Aires, and a degree in Communication Sciences from the New University of Lisbon. She published the book "El Autorretrato en el Documental" ("Self-Portrait in Documentary") in 2008, in Argentina, as well as several book chapters and articles. She has taught at Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 University, Grenoble Alpes University, Paris Est - Marne-la-Vallée University, Rennes 2 University, the University of Cinema of Buenos Aires, and the University of Communication in Mexico City. She was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles. Currently, she is a post-doctoral FCT fellow at the CEC/University of Lisbon and the University of the Western Cape, and a co-editor of the quarterly of theory and history of cinema La Furia Umana.

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Published

2019-02-06

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 1 (2019): The viewing and criticism of television series

Section

Exhibitions and film festivals