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Hear some of the great discussions happening over Zoom
Continuous Refusal, Collective Refusal
How do black collectivity and queer intimacy refuse the category of property? What is made possible when we imagine the tradition of black radicalism as continuous, collective work rather than an inheritance in which individuals accumulate knowledge, or become subjects of history? In this tradition, could we exist together across time, outside the patrimony of ownership or the lure of emancipation as “something akin to freedom” as described by Harriet Jacobs?
Artist Cameron Rowland and MoMA curator Thomas Lax address these questions and speak together about their collaboration and work. Moderated by Tina Campt (Brown University) and Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa (RISD).
Presented by the Brown Arts Initiative and Black Visualities Initiative at the Cogut Humanities Institute, with additional support from the Rhode Island School of Design and the Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration at Yale University.
Where Are We Now?
Artists Shey Rivera Ríos, Nafis White, and Joey DeFrancesco (aka La Neve) discuss their experiences remaking their own artistic realities, putting forth new concepts of realness and shifting audiences’ understanding of the before, the now and the future. The conversation was facilitated by Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo, Mellon Gateway Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University.
in Pursuit of Venus [infected]
A Conversation with Lisa Reihana
Artist Lisa Reihana previews the powerful 70 foot long scrolling video, a corrective to the historical record, created in response to eighteenth-century views of the Pacific islands as presented in the historic French wallpaper Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique (Native Peoples of the South Pacific), 1804-05. Reihana is joined by Marisa Angell Brown, Assistant Director for Programs, John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities, Julia Lum, Assistant Professor of Art History at Scripps College, Claremont, CA; performer and cultural historian Annawon Weedon, and Jo-Ann Conklin, Director, David Winton Bell Gallery. in Pursuit of Venus [infected] will be shown at the Bell Gallery in the fall of 2021.
Elisabeth Subrin: In Conversation
Filmmaker Elisabeth Subrin was in conversation with Kate Kraczon, Curator of the David Winton Bell Gallery, following a screening of Subrin's 1997 film "Shulie", a recreation of a little-known 1967 documentary portrait of a young Chicago art student, who a few years later would become a notable figure in Second Wave feminism. Subrin’s current project, Maria Schneider, 1983, an experimental cinematic recreation of a 1983 television interview with the late French actress Maria Schneider (1952-2011).
Kent Monkman: Keynote Address
The BAI Kicked off its REMAKING the real Festival with a keynote address by interdisciplinary artist Kent Monkman. Known for his provocative interventions into Western European and American art history, Monkman explores themes of colonization, sexuality, loss, and resilience—the complexities of historic and contemporary Indigenous experiences—across painting, film/video, performance, and installation. Monkman’s gender-fluid alter ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle often appears in his work as a time-traveling, shape-shifting, supernatural being who reverses the colonial gaze to challenge received notions of history and Indigenous peoples. A recording of Monkman's talk is available to users within the Bronw.edu domain.
Topographies of Reclamation
Following a screening of Dawson City: Frozen Time, filmmaker Bill Morrison spoke with Regina Longo, Media Archivist in the Department of Modern Culture and Media. Dawson City: Frozen Time depicts the unique history of this Canadian Gold Rush town by chronicling the life cycle of a singular film collection through its exile, burial, rediscovery, and salvation.
Activating Deconstructions in Dance & Performance
Interdisciplinary performance makers Sara Jimenez and Zavé Martohardjono will discuss their embodied approaches to invisible histories, dis/orientation, and deconstructing political and historical narratives, as well as address how their artistic practices are evolving in response to the current global health pandemic. Presented by Prof. J Dellecave, Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies.
Black Lavender 2020: Black Southern Gay Men Speak
A Conversation with E. Patrick Johnson and Lisa Biggs
The Department of Africana Studies/Rites and Reason Theatre invite you to participate in a special Black Lavender Experience. From Friday, April 10th through Thursday, April 16th, the event dove into the archive to present performances, keynotes, and conversations for reflection today. For additional content from the 2020 festival, click here.
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