ADELA GOLDBARD

Mexico, 1979

Adela Goldbard is an interdisciplinary artist-academic from Mexico City. She is a full-time professor at the Rhode Island School of the Arts and part of Mexico's Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte. Through her practice/research, she explores how radical community performances can subvert dominant narratives while investigating the transformative potential of violence and destruction as aesthetic tools in resistance to power. Goldbard focuses on the collective processes of creation, staging and destruction, all of which she believes can trigger critical thinking and social change. She is currently developing an emerging poetics of violence. In this aesthetic-political research, she reimagines violence as a deterritorialized concept, considering it as a communal, critical and decolonial aesthetic experience with the capacity to make dissident collective memories visible. Her recent artistic commissions include a pyrotechnic work created in collaboration with and for the Mexican community of La Villita in Chicago (University of Illinois, 2019-20) and a socially engaged art project with and for the P'urhépecha community of Arantepacua (FEMSA Biennial, 2020-21). She is currently working on a participatory film/sensory ethnography in the Peruvian Andes in collaboration with the Quechua communities of Chumbivilcas. He lives and works between Mexico, the United States and Canada.  

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