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DESCRIPTION:Admission required (free with membership)\n\nIn conjunction with Fernando 
 Botero: The Abu Ghraib Series, on view at the Berkeley Museum and Pacific 
 Film Archive September 23, 2009–February 7, 2010.\n\nThe social 
 consequences of global and internal imbalances of power have long 
 influenced the creative work of many Latin American artists and writers. 
 How do contemporary practitioners relate to legacies of repression, 
 resistance, and protest, and how do they consider social and political 
 alternatives for the future in their work? Peruvian-born writer Daniel 
 Alarcón and Colombian-born artist Carlos Motta will discuss their recent 
 and current projects with these questions in mind.\n\nDaniel Alarcón is 
 not only the fall 2009 writer in residence in the MFA Program in Writing 
 but also the top-prize winner of the first International Literature 
 Award—Haus der Kulturen der Welt 2009 for his novel Lost City Radio 
 (translated by Friederike Meltendorf). The award is issued in Berlin by 
 Haus der Kulturen der Welt (House of the Cultures of the World) and the 
 private organization Stiftung Elementarteilchen. The award aims to heighten 
 people's awareness of outstanding and extraordinary new works of 
 international literature. (The same novel earned the author the 2008 
 Literary Award for Fiction from PEN USA.) Alarcón also was a 2006 
 PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist for his collection War by Candlelight. He is 
 associate editor of Etiqueta Negra, a magazine published in Lima, Peru, and 
 has been a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley’s Center for Latin American 
 Studies. He is currently working on his first graphic novel.\n\nCarlos 
 Motta uses strategies from documentary film, journalism, and sociology to 
 consider the effects of specific political events in photography, video, 
 and installation projects. Recent works include The Immigrant Files: 
 Democracy Is Not Dead, It Just Smells Funny and La Buena Vida (The Good 
 Life). Motta was a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow and some of his current work is 
 included in the Lyon Biennale.\n\n[image: Fernando Botero: Abu Ghraib 68, 
 2005;\noil on canvas; 15 3⁄8 × 17 ¾ in.; gift of the artist.\nPhoto: 
 Sibila Savage]\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/10/08/18624829.php
SUMMARY:Conversation with Daniel Alarcón and Carlos Motta
LOCATION:UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive\n\nBam Galleries\n2626 
 Bancroft Way, Berkeley\n510.642.0808
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/10/08/18624829.php
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