Yanira Castro: Exorcism = Liberation

Throughout election season, interdisciplinary artist Yanira Castro will challenge the UMass campus and broader regional community to contemplate and confront questions related to decolonization, natural and political history, and community. In a public art project that employs the tools of mass communication and marketing (e.g. lawn signs, bus signs, and screen displays), Castro will invite individual reflection as a form of collective mass action. At this event, Castro will discuss and engage in dialogue about the purpose of her work and the concepts underlying it.

Castro's work is rooted in communal construction as a rehearsal for radical democracy. Born in Borikén, Puerto Rico, and now living in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn), Castro works at the intersection of communal practices, performance, installation, and interactive technology. Castro forms iterative, multimodal projects that center land, and the complexity of citizenship and governance in works activated and performed by the public.