VUELTAS, in Spanish, means turns, returns, and detours. Nicholas Dawson plays with this polysemy to take us to Chile, the country he left in early childhood with his entire family and to which he repeatedly returns in this queer and diasporic narrative, adopting different styles and crossing geographical, cultural, linguistic, literary, disciplinary, epistemological, sexual, and gendered borders.

This hybrid essay—composed of theoretical reflections, personal narratives, ekphrasis, lists, playlists, and poems—captures the affective and ever-shifting experience of memory, borders, and exile.​

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This event is part of the exhibition Diasporic Affection