In this presentation, Andermann posed the question of whether art can help us survive the end of the world, emphasising the power of what he himself calls non-specific arts to respond to this challenge. ‘…I advocate for hybrid practices that take advantage of the arts’ capacity to create worlds, in order to provoke acts of gathering that involve humans and more-than-humans alike,’ said the academic.

Jens Andermann is a professor at New York University with extensive experience researching and writing about modern Latin American art, cinema, literature, architecture, and material culture. He is editor of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies and author of the books New Argentine Cinema (2011), The Optic of the State: Visuality and Power in Argentina and Brazil (2007) and Maps of Power: A Literary Archaeology of Argentine Space (2000).