Arquetopia Anniversary Free Virtual Lecture Series: The Hands of Our Ancestors at Our Backs

We’re thrilled to present the virtual lecture *”The Hands of Our Ancestors at Our Backs: The Conceptual Practice of Francisco Guevara,”* as part of Arquetopia’s 15th Anniversary Virtual Lecture Series.

Dive deep into the work of Francisco Guevara—visual artist, activist, curator, and independent scholar. This lecture, connected to the contemporary art exhibition *Omens of Empire (Presagios de Imperio),* will be led by Dr. Kirsten Pai Buick, Professor of Art History and Chair of Africana Studies at the University of New Mexico.

Conceptual artists use whichever materials and forms are most appropriate to convey their ideas, resulting in vastly different types of artworks that can range from performance to writing to everyday objects. These artists explore the possibilities of art-as-idea and art-as-knowledge, incorporating linguistic, mathematical, and process-oriented dimensions of thought, as well as invisible systems, structures, and processes. Francisco Guevara’s “object” is “Empire”—and the various acts of oppression deployed to shape our realities according to class, ability, nation, gender, and race or ethnicity. This lecture will examine his conceptual practice, including his pioneering work with Arquetopia’s “anti-residency” model.

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