Faculty

My main interests encompass the relation between the cinema, mind, affect and the public sphere. In particular, I examine the potential of documentary film as well as feature films (analogue and digital forms) for fostering a critical engagement with and understanding of the contemporary world. This requires an ethnographic and anthropological point of view alongside aesthetic and formal criteria. Specific topics that highlight these issues are global cities and transnational communities in the US, Europe, and Latin America as well as films that performatively engage with split or conflicted identities and depict the uneven power-relations underpinning intersubjective communications and interpersonal contacts. My current research focuses on Pre-Columbian Peruvian textiles, art objects, and architecture and their influence on European Modernism and on contemporary fashion, design, and photography.

PhD, Performance Studies and Anthropology, New York University; MA, Anthropology, University of California at San Diego; BA, Clinical Psychology, Pontifical Catholic University of Lima, Peru

S.Vega-Llona, "Decorative Art in XVIII Century Perú: Prestige and Power."  The European Fine Art Foundation, TEFAF, Maastricht 2024. Zebregs & Röell Catalogue .

S. Vega-Llona, "EL Rostro Como Instancia Ética (en el arte)," (The Face as an Ethical Stance), ICPNA, Lima, Perú. 2023.

S. Vega-LLona, "Prologue: Thomas Elsaesser and The Mind Game Film." In: The Mind-Game Film. Distributed Agency, Time Travel, and Productive Pathologhy. By Thomas Elsaesser. Routledge, March 2021.

S. Vega-Llona, Temor y Curacion en la Ciudad Global (Fear and Healing in the Global City). Fondo Editorial del Congreso del Peru. Lima, November 2005

S. Vega-Llona, The Beggar with the Prada Shoes: Stories from the Global Sidewalk (in process).

S.Vega-LLona, The Lady of Cao, Sorceress Queen: Archeology,Documentary Film, and Sustainable Development. El Comercio, Dominical, March, 2015.