This talk represents a unique opportunity to explore and debate Matta-Clark’s innovative work from transdisciplinary, affective, and gender perspectives based on Richards and Halberstam’s research experience. The event will be held in collaboration with Brown University and the Center for Gender and Culture Studies in Latin America at the University of Chile’s Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities.

Jack Halberstam is a world-renowned queer theorist, known for his innovative work on the aesthetics of failure and his in-depth analysis of subaltern cultures. He is a professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University and the author of several books, including Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Duke UP, 1995), Female Masculinity (Duke UP, 1998), In A Queer Time and Place (NYU Press, 2005), and The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP, 2011). In 2018, he was awarded the Arcus/Places Prize for his contributions to the study and reflection on gender, sexuality, and the built environment.

Ariel Florencia Richards is a writer and visual arts researcher. She studied Design at the Catholic University of Valparaíso, Aesthetics at the Catholic University of Chile, and completed a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing at New York University. She is the author of the novel Inacabada (Penguin Random House, 2024) and has published texts on contemporary art in various digital and print media. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Arts at the Catholic University of Chile, where she researches the relationships between performance, gender, and memory. She also works as a project director at the Fragile Architecture Foundation.