Wednesday, March 21st at 7pm join us at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami) for the Suely Rolnik Lecture. Internationally renowned psychoanalyst and curator Suely Rolnik explores the connections between art, power, decolonialization and micropolitical resistance. FREE RSVP
What Does Micropolitical Resistance Has To Do With Art (and with Clinic)? The sinister landscape pervading the planet places us in a state of urgency. As with all traumatic situations, when not succumbed, we are able to gain access to the effects of violence in our bodies, and from what such effects reveal to us, we can decode the situation and invent means to combat it. We then discover that the focus of violence under the globalitarian capitalist power is the abuse of life in its essence: a driven force of creation every time life is suffocated in the forms of the present.
Suely Rolnik is a Brazilian psychoanalyst, writer and curator. She is a professor at the Catholic University of São Paulo, where she founded the Subjectivity Studies Centre at the Ph.D Program on Clinical Psychology, and was guest professor at the Program of Independent Studies of the Museo d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MacBa) from its foundation in 2008 until its closure in 2015. She was exiled in Paris from 1970–1979, where she obtained a master’s degree in Sociology and Philosophy from Sorbonne / Paris VIII, a master’s in Clinical Human Sciences from Sorbonne / Paris VII, and a clinical Ph.D / D.E.S.S. Upon returning to Brazil, she obtained a Ph.D. in Social Psychology at PUC-SP.
Image: John Miller, Storage Area, 1999. Acrylic and assorted objects on styrofoam sphere. Permanent Collection, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. Gift of Peter Norton.
