This Thursday, December 12th and Friday, December 13th, the GAM will host the “Interdisciplinary Research Meeting on Arts and Cultural Practices for Social Transformation.” This meeting, sponsored by the Center’s research department, aims to promote dialogue, reflection, and critical thinking around cultural and artistic expressions.

CMUS researchers will participate in this event in two stages. The first will be the opening talk entitled “Emergencies and Horizons in the Field of Research on Artistic and Cultural Practices,” which will be presented by CMUS researcher Sebastián Muñoz, along with Tomas Peters and María Paulina Soto Labbé.

Muñoz will also participate in Panel 3: “Music and Corporeality. Performativity in Urban Space,” which will take place on Friday the 13th at 12:20 p.m. The UAH professor will present alongside Valentina Echeverría, Lalau Yllarramendiz Alfonso, and Sofía Guzmán.

Meanwhile, CMUS’s alternate director, Carla Pinochet Cobos, will present her book, “Decentered Culture: Studies on Cultural Democracy in Chile and Latin America,” on Friday the 13th at 10:00 a.m. Anthropologist Néstor García Canclini explained the book:

How can we think together about the seclusion still required for autonomous works, the media and their products disseminated through streaming, the malaise of artists who call themselves workers and find the promises of the creative economy diluted into precariousness? If culture is so dispersed, it cannot be democratized with policies that, for half a century, have insisted only on expanding its dissemination. This book is based on fieldwork in traditional or performative museums and with their users in Chile, Paraguay, and Peru, following the practices of creators and readers in Mexico, the contradictory convulsions of citizen participation, urban memories, the euphoria and disappointment in political mobilizations that use the languages ​​of the arts to communicate their imaginaries and rebellions.