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Rozalinda Borcilă: Visiting Artist Program Lecture
Wednesday, March 29, 2023 , 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm CDT
On Campus: Tuesday, March 28 – Tuesday April 11
Public Lecture: Wednesday, March 29, at noon, University Galleries
Rozalinda Borcilă is a Romanian artist, researcher, and activist based in Chicago. She combines analytic and embodied modes of artistic research to trace the ways racialized banishment, ecocide, Indigenous dispossession, and extractive violence are encoded in everyday places. How does this coalesce around material forms and flows of capital, around institutions and forms of property—but also around modes of feeling, modes of relation, and everyday experiences of being in place? Her current projects focus on waterscapes and glacial narratives.
Borcilă has exhibited internationally in Europe, South Africa, and the Occupied Territories of Palestine. Recent long-term projects include Underlying Miami: Sea Level Rise and Settler Futurities (seminar, video, text; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami and Place de la Monnaie Brussels); Meskonsin-Kansan (book and walking project, collaboration with Nicholas Brown and Lance Foster, Vice Chair of the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska); and Hydrologic Unit Code 071200 (video-installation, collaboration with Andrea Carlson, University of Michigan Museum of Art). She is the recipient of numerous awards including a Newberry Library Research Fellowship, 3Arts Award, Illinois Artist Fellowship, Chicago Filmmakers Grant, and Art Matters Award.
Borcilă is active in migrant solidarity and border abolition struggles. She is core member of NoShelter, an activist media project exploring migrant child detention in the U.S. and the efforts to dismantle it. She works in museums, universities, art centers, community spaces, squats, and in the streets.
3arts.org/artist/Rozalinda-Borcila