Carla Macchiavello

Borough of Manhattan Community College

07/01/2018 - 7/22/2018

Carla Macchiavello is Assistant Professor in Art History at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY, New York. Her work centres on Latin American Contemporary art with a focus on Chilean art, networks of solidarity and resistance, video art, and the relations between art, politics, and performative practices. She has published articles on the works of Cecilia Vicuña, Juan Downey, Francisca Benítez, Carolina Saquel, Elkin Calderón, among others. Her book, Marcando el territorio: gráfica conceptual, performance y video arte chileno forthcoming from Metales Pesados (2018), focuses on conceptual art practices and territorial discourses in Chile between 1975-1985. At the Clark, as part of the summer working group led by Soledad García, she will collaborate on the creation of the conceptual framework for a book on Chilean Pop Art and its relations to the “popular” in Chile during the 1960s.