CARTAGENA THINKS: WOMEN, ART AND HISTORY SERIES. DIANA CUELLAR 'SELF-NARRATIVE AND FEMINISM. EXPANDED POSSIBILITIES'

CARTAGENA THINKS: WOMEN, ART AND HISTORY SERIES. DIANA CUELLAR 'SELF-NARRATIVE AND FEMINISM. EXPANDED POSSIBILITIES'

This lecture explores the feminist dictum "the personal is political," situating it within the current historical context of narcissism and the triumph of self-politics as a liberal market paradigm. Where and how are the ethical and political implications of self-narratives defined? How is this debate shaped by a gender perspective? And how can this discussion be framed within the current landscape of what Byung-Chul Han calls "digital psychopolitics," where the self becomes a product consumed and validated through overexposure on social media, the performativity of the branded self, and the tyranny of the like? I will examine examples of artistic creations where the threshold between the personal and the political achieves both profound impact and profound synthesis.

Diana Cuéllar is a curator, writer, and university professor. She holds a PhD in literary and cultural studies from the Autonomous University of Madrid. In 2022, she was a consultant for Phaidon Press for the book “Prime Art’s Next Generation.”

Presented by: Tatiana Abellán, visual artist, cultural manager, teacher and researcher
 

DATE: March 25. TIME: 7:00 p.m. LOCATION: ARQVA Auditorium