After La vida nueva

This year's Curatorial Fellows of the Whitney Independent Study Program organized their culminating project as a comprehensive and dynamic online presentation. "After La Vida Nueva," as it's titled, takes its name from a politically-charged poem by Raúl Zurita in which the artist and poet alluded to the 1973 coup of his native Chile's democratically-elected president, which was enabled by the United States, and ultimately led to a dictatorship. In 1982, Zurita revealed the work to an audience of friends and peers, who watched from the ground in Queens, New York, as five decommissioned, World War II-era airplanes spelled out his prose in the sky.

Along with documentation of this event [pictured], the exhibition highlights videos, installations, sculpture, poetry, and performances—all united thematically by way of each piece's engagement with various, lesser-known histories around feminist, queer, and Third World liberation movements.

Hosted by Artists Space, the digital platform will feature a deep-dive into a different component of the show each week. Additionally, the curators assembled an expanded catalog that is free to download via Artists Space's website.