Son[i]a #427
Nancy Garín

Nancy Garín (Valparaíso, 1972) is a journalist, researcher, art historian, and independent curator. Moving between theoretical production and the field of the sensible, she is driven by the desire to clear paths for critical thinking and the political imagination. This self-described “daughter of modernity” uses critical pedagogies, doing-with-others, and archival and memory work as strategies with which to chart counter-imaginaries and horizons of the commons.

Born into a left-wing activist family, Nancy’s experience of exile and diaspora began during the Chilean dictatorship, leading her to forge a subjectivity and way of being in the world grounded in displacement and community. In the midst of her comings and goings in Chile, Columbia, and Argentina, she encountered and became a member of activist art group Etcétera and the Errorist International. These experiences shaped her practice, and she incorporated error and intuition as prolific forms for experimentation. She is currently a member of the research platform Equipo Re (with Linda Valdés and Aimar Arriola), working on the AIDS Anarchive project. She is also part of Espectros de lo Urbano, in collaboration with Antoine Silvestre.

In this podcast, we look back at Nancy Garín’s life in order to shed light on her toolbox and projects to date. We take our time discussing collective methodologies and communal notions, and their challenges and difficulties. Continuing with the idea of community, Nancy emphasises the need to foster a radical political imagination and the power of empathy in collective action, using art as a critical and perceptual tool. Given the rigidity of writing and theory, perhaps play, putting our bodies in the streets, and allowing error are the keys we need to imagine other worlds and continue to build community.

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