Radical Archiving: Memory as Activism

Alice Proujansky and Christopher Gregory-Rivera in Conversation

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Join Aperture and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico for a special conversation between the artists Christopher Gregory-Rivera and Alice Proujansky. Both Gregory-Rivera’s El Gobierno Te Odia (2023) and Proujansky’s Hard Times are Fighting Times (2023) consider the importance of the archive.

Hard Times are Fighting Times describes the legacy of Proujansky’s parents’ participation in radical leftist groups like Weatherman, the Native American Solidarity Committee, and the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee that sought to overthrow US imperialism and capitalism through organizing and revolution. Gregory-Rivera has embarked on an unsparingly honest, extensively researched project documenting one of the longest, continuous Puerto Rican surveillance programs ever conducted on its own citizens. Replete with primary textual and visual evidence, El Gobierno Te Odia illuminates and critiques the violent and systematic suppression brought on by government surveillance during a pivotal time in the Puerto Rican independence movement.

This program will be offered in Spanish, and is free and open to all.

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Image: Alice Proujansky, Hard Times are Fighting Times