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URL:https://cranbrookartmuseum.org/events/critical-studies-lecture-laura-g
 utierrez-nao-bustamantes-artistic-re-imaginings-galleries-closed/
SUMMARY:Critical Studies Lecture: Laura Gutiérrez "Nao Bustamante’s Arti
 stic Re-imaginings" (Galleries Closed)
DESCRIPTION:Join Cranbrook Academy of Art at deSalle Auditorium for a free\
 , public lecture from Laura Gutiérrez on artist Nao Bustamante.\n\nNao Bu
 stamante is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is very much rooted in d
 eep research\, whether this be archival or otherwise. And through her perf
 ormances\, installations\, and media work—she often overlays these art f
 orms—she is also intent in making grand and/or minute statements about l
 ife and death\, and everything in between\, all the while never losing rag
 e or joy\, and whatever other emotions may surface depending on the artist
 ic pieces\, and what they may elicit. This presentation will serve as a br
 ief introduction to some of Bustamante’s work. But rather than focusing 
 on what I have already written and published on\, I will devote discuss th
 ree research-based projects that are invested in re-imaging the past\, in 
 varying ways and which I argue is often done to move us (forward) with mor
 e ease and care. These three projects are ambitious in scope and are compo
 sed of different parts. The first one\, SILVER AND GOLD (2009)\, is a film
 formance (a term coined by Bustamante) that can be briefly described as a 
 meditation on our relationships to cinematic divas—particularly those of
  yesterday—through a brilliant layering of film and live performance\; t
 he second is SOLDADERA (ongoing since 2010) that consists of different ele
 ments and artistic forms as it reimagines the figure of the “women soldi
 er” and brings her into the present and future\; and the last one is BLO
 OM (ongoing since 2021)\, one of Bustamante’s most recent research-based
  art project in which she re-imagines the vaginal speculum at the same tim
 e that the multi-media project also tackles with the dark history of gynec
 ological healthcare.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaura Gutiérrez is Associate Professor 
 in Latinx Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research areas
  are Latinx performance\, visual culture\, queer studies\, and feminisms. 
 Gutiérrez is the author of Performing Mexicanidad: Vendidas y Cabaretera
 s on the Transnational Stage (recipient of an MLA book award) and has pub
 lished on Latinx performance\, border art\, Mexican video art\, and Mexica
 n political cabaret. She was a fellow in the Getty Scholars Program in LA 
 (fall 2022) and currently holds a Provost’s Authors Fellowship (2022-202
 3) as she completes her monograph in progress Binding Intimacies in Conte
 mporary Queer Latinx Performance and Visual Art.
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