Visual artists Jorge Miyagui and Mauricio Delgado, and visual anthropologist Karen Bernedo Morales, will share their experiences in executing award-winning public art interventions that include Art for Memory (Asociación Cultural Museo Itinerante Arte por la Memoria) and the Muralist Brigade (La Brigada Muralista). They will help us understand the role that art has played in moments of political instability, mass protest, and COVID. Discussing recent events in Peru, they will also describe how a visual internationalism informs their political activism and creative work.

The artists are co-founders of the collective art project Museo Itinerante Arte por la Memoria which received the National Human Rights Award in 2012 and the Prince Claus Award in 2014.

Karen Bernedo Morales is an award-winning curator, documentary filmmaker and visual anthropologist trained at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. She teaches visual arts at la Universidad Científica del Sur. She is also the curator of various projects including the "Museo Virtual de Arte y Violencia Política," the video project "Poéticas Visuales de la Resistencia," the exhibit “#EmancipadasyEmancipadoras,” and the public art workshops "Jornadas de Arte." With Miyagui and Delgado, she formed part of the collective art project that received the National Human Rights Award in 2012 and the Prince Claus Award in 2014.

Mauricio Delgado is an award-winning visual and performance artist, trained at the Institute of Visual Arts Edith Sachs. His work has been showcased internationally in Cuba, El Salvador, the United States and throughout Peru. He is active in public, collaborative and multi-media artistic production. His well-reviewed individual exhibit, “Between Flowers and Misfortunes”, like much of his work, engages the themes of memory, rights, and violence. He was also involved in the collaborative project, “Peruvian Art after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.”

Jorge Miyagui is a celebrated visual artist, trained at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions in Helsinki, Finland and various cities in Peru, and has been included in various collective exhibitions in Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, Germany, Spain, the United States. His work in countercultural projects, alternative cultural organizations, and public artistic interventions has been featured in various publications in Perú, Argentina, Holland, and Finland. He has also been a featured speaker at many academic conferences and events in Peru and internationally. He has been a member of the Aguaitones Collective (1998-2001) and the Forum for Cultural Solidarity (2004-2009). Currently he is involved in the following collective projects: the Muralist Brigade, the Averno, and the Traveling Museum: Art for Memory (Museo Itinerante Arte por la Memoria).

Part of Art at the Borders of the Political. Across the Americas, visual artists reveal the limitations of official state- authorized “truth and reconciliation” projects and the importance of including everyday people in the work of memory and protest. Through a series of film screenings, public talks and exhibitions, micro-seminars and participatory pop-up installations, this project showcases the power of art and sensory scholarship to move beyond the tropes of victimhood or heroic resistance and reveal democratic energies.

For more information or questions, please contact María Elena García, meg71@uw.edu