Counter-mapping Nueva York: Artists, Archives, and Public Memory
NADA Presents
May 16, 2026, 5:15–6:15pm
NADA New York
601 W 26th Street, 3rd Floor
601 W 26th Street, 3rd Floor
Presented by The Clemente Center
This conversation centers on Historias, a multiyear public humanities initiative dedicated to recentering Latinx histories within New York City’s cultural landscape. Grounded in the proposition that “Nueva York is the city inside the city,” the discussion explores how artist-led commissions, archival research, and public programming can challenge dominant narratives and activate more expansive forms of public memory.
Offering a behind-the-scenes look at projects developed for Historias Reveladas, the initiative’s forthcoming exhibition, the panel brings together Natalia Nakazawa, Edwin Torres, and Alva Mooses with Mauricio Cortés Ortega to reflect on artistic approaches to migration, everyday poetics, and labor. Moderated by Libertad Guerra (Executive Director of The Clemente Center), the conversation considers how contemporary artists engage history as a living, collective process—one shaped through place, voice, and community-driven forms of knowledge.
This conversation centers on Historias, a multiyear public humanities initiative dedicated to recentering Latinx histories within New York City’s cultural landscape. Grounded in the proposition that “Nueva York is the city inside the city,” the discussion explores how artist-led commissions, archival research, and public programming can challenge dominant narratives and activate more expansive forms of public memory.
Offering a behind-the-scenes look at projects developed for Historias Reveladas, the initiative’s forthcoming exhibition, the panel brings together Natalia Nakazawa, Edwin Torres, and Alva Mooses with Mauricio Cortés Ortega to reflect on artistic approaches to migration, everyday poetics, and labor. Moderated by Libertad Guerra (Executive Director of The Clemente Center), the conversation considers how contemporary artists engage history as a living, collective process—one shaped through place, voice, and community-driven forms of knowledge.