Queer Symposium

“contesting citizenship: (dis)locating bodies”
mónica enríquez-enríquez, artist

Thursday, May 28, 2009 // Art Annex // 6-8pm

This year’s symposium will begin with a video screening and discussion featuring artist mónica enríquez-enríquez.  She will screen several video art projects documenting conversations by queer migrants, including “fragments of migration” (2008), “escrito” (2007), and “intimate margins/margenes íntimas” (2007), and she will open a conversation around artistic and political choices, visual images, and fragmentation and about nationalism, citizenship, and public feelings.  This event is free and open to the public and will include free food. 

About the Artist: mónica enríquez-enríquez is a queer Latina, born and raised in Colombia. She has an M.F.A in the Digital Arts and New Media from University of California Santa Cruz. She graduated from San Francisco State University on August 2005 with a B.A. in International Relations and an Emphasis on Women’s Studies. Her interdisciplinary interests include queer theory, migration and diaspora studies, cultural studies, documentary making and digital arts. Her most recent video installation “fragments of migration” interrogates the institution of asylum in the U.S. based on sexual identity and gender identity. Art is for her a site for community activism and participation as well as a site to question institutional oppression and challenge normative constructions of gender, desire, citizenship and nation.