In this talk, conceptual artist Violette Bule in conversation with Irina R. Troconis (Department of Romance Studies) will discuss a series of Bule’s works that engage with the political, social, and cultural dimensions of migration, both in the context of Venezuela’s current migration crisis and in the broader context of Latin American migration. Reflecting on issues such as identity anxiety, jurisdiction, territoriality, nationality, identification, bureaucratic performance, concentric borders, bi-dimensionality, and transitoriality, the talk will analyze the intersections of identity and territory that materialize as shared experiences of living and belonging through art practices.

Violette Bule is a Venezuelan-Lebanese conceptual artist and an MFA candidate at the University of Houston. Her work engages with a wide variety of topics—migration, identity, memory, violence, community engagement, digital technologies, the politics of space, and the social and political reality of contemporary Venezuela—and has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She was selected for the 11 Installations Artist Project founded by MOCA, Art League, and HAA, Houston, Texas. She was also the recipient of a SOMA SUMMER - MEXICO CITY grant awarded by the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, and of the first artist residency awarded by Cornell’s Romance Studies Department.

Co-Sponsor: Romance Studies Department