Next Wednesday, June 26 at 5:00 pm will be held in the conference room of the exhibition hall of Il Posto (Espoz 3150, floor -1, Vitacura) the conversation «Trans Anarchitectures with and beyond Gordon Matta-Clark.» The event will feature the participation of writer Ariel Florencia Richards and theorist Jack Halberstam and will be moderated by Soledad Falabella.

This conversation represents a unique opportunity to explore and discuss Matta-Clark’s groundbreaking work from transdisciplinary, affective and gendered perspectives drawing on Richards’ and Halberstam’s research expertise. The event will be held in collaboration with Brown University and the Center for Gender and Cultural Studies in Latin America of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of Chile.

Jack Halberstam is a world-renowned queer theorist, known for his groundbreaking work on the aesthetics of failure and his in-depth analysis of subaltern cultures. He is 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 recognized with the Arcus/Places Award for his contributions to the study of 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 Masters 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 relationships in performance, gender and memory. She also works as project manager at the Frágil Foundation.