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Sondra Perry: Interacting Artist and Activist Communities
Hypervisibilities with Sondra Perry: Interacting Artist and Activist Communities
This event, developed by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics in dialog with Sondra Perry, brings together the work and voices of activists, artists, cultural critics, and public intellectuals to consider how art and activism are shaping one another as visual materials that are re-contextualized and recirculated at increasingly accelerated rates.
On Friday, October 6th at Union Docs, Perry screens a selection of works by video artists and filmmakers that use found footage to show the manifold identities of Blackness as they are expanded and and flattened in contemporary culture. The event continues at The New School’s Theresa Lang Community and Student Center in Arnhold Hall on Saturday and includes two panel discussions.
The first conversation will consider the contemporary professionalization of activism and the second will provide a historical account of artist communities and their related roles as activists. Through this framework we think through what tools we can draw into the present from such experiences.
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Panel 2: Interacting Artist and Activist Communities
The second will consider the role artist communities have played historically and their related roles as activists. In this context we will discuss the representation of communities through such forms of activism, the material stakes for the artists representing these communities and their involvement in the communities themselves.Participants:
– Alexandra Bell, artist– Greg Tate, journalist
– Mia White, The New School for Public Engagement
– Soyoung Yoon, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School
Location:
Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall
55 West 13th Street, Room I-202, New York, NY 10011
Saturday, October 7, 2017 at 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm
