Talk with Author & Artist Pablo Helguera: The Spaces of Socially Engaged Art

Thursday, January 31st, 2019, 12:55-1:45 PM, Feigenbaum Center for Visual Art, Rm 204

Over the last decade, several artists with diverse backgrounds opted to move out of the conventional spaces of art to create experiences, relationships, actions and dialogues with individuals, often with the goals to contribute to particular social and political issues in their neighborhoods. This site-specific approach, working with specific communities and involving all aspects of the visual art discipline along with performance, architecture, urbanism and education, acquired the designation of socially engaged art or social practice. In this talk, Helguera will describe the emergence of this art form, the way it finds its roots in activism, performance and other disciplines, and how it  is slowly making room in the art practice at large.

This talk is in conjunction with the Mandeville Gallery’s new exhibition, A Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas, which is organized by the Vincent Price Art Museum, California, and is curated by Pilar Tompkins Rivas. Refreshments will be provided. Funding for the talk provided by the Department of Visual Arts.