Elize Mazadiego’s “‘Somos Libres?!’: Alternative Art Networks and Latin American Queer Diasporas in 1970s Amsterdam” will examine art by queer artists from Latin America who moved to Amsterdam in the 1970s and made artworks that mediated their experience of displacement and marginalization while providing visibility to queer transnational communities.
Elize Mazadiego is assistant professor in World Art History in the Institute for Art History and Director of the Global Studies PhD Program in the Walter Benjamin Kolleg at the Universität Bern. She is the author of Dematerialization and the Social Materiality of Art: Experimental Forms in Argentina, 1955–1968 (Brill, 2021) and the editor of Charting Space: The Cartographies of Conceptual Art (Manchester University Press, 2023). She is also an editor at the journal Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture and part of the editorial collective of FIELD: a journal of socially-engaged art.