Revolución sin la Revolución: Works and talk by Hamlet Lavastida

Revolución sin la Revolución: Works and talk by Hamlet Lavastida

Hamlet Lavastida, Intelectuales sin Palabras (Intellectuals without Words), Havana, 2009.

Revolución sin la Revolución: Works and talk by Hamlet Lavastida
*Event postponed

Free admission

e-flux
172 Classon Ave
Brooklyn 11205
USA

*This event has been postponed. We hope to communicate a new date soon. Please stay tuned to this page and to e-flux.com/events for further updates.

Join us at e-flux on Tuesday, November 14 at 7pm for an evening with Cuban artist Hamlet Lavastida

Lavastida will screen some of his animations, as well as a short documentary about his public interventions in Cuba. Via and in addition to his practice, he will give a brief introduction to the dispute over public space, historiography, cultural politics, opposition, civil disobedience, and the state of art activism on the island and in the diaspora.

The evening will be introduced by artist and writer Coco Fusco, who will moderate a discussuion with Lavastida following his talk.

For more information, contact program@e-flux.com.

Accessibility   
–Two flights of stairs lead up to the building’s front entrance at 172 Classon Avenue.     
–For elevator access, please RSVP to program@e-flux.com. The building has a freight elevator which leads into the e-flux office space. Entrance to the elevator is nearest to 180 Classon Ave (a garage door). We have a ramp for the steps within the space.              
–e-flux has an ADA-compliant bathroom. There are no steps between the event space and this bathroom.

Category
Communism
Subject
Revolution, Cuba, Public Space, Art Activism

Hamlet Lavastida is a Cuban artist based in Berlin. His videos, collages, drawings, and public art explore the visualization of state ideology, reinterpreting the role of Cuban political rhetoric and iconography in public culture, and focusing on the ways that Cuban propaganda shapes and distorts history.

Coco Fusco is a Cuban-American artist and writer, and a professor at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York.

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