• “Just Futures” Opens

    Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, California, United States

    Against the present’s seemingly endless backdrop of deep political unrest, environmental emergency, and racialized injustice, Just Futures highlights poignant creative experiments in futurity and justice, directed at emancipatory worlds-to-come. With artworks by Black Quantum Futurism, Arthur Jafa, and Martine Syms, Just Futures considers how time itself is a site of struggle and a horizon of liberation. The centerpiece of the exhibition, Arthur Jafa's Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death (2016), was screened simultaneously over 48 hours across art museums in 2020 as an international response to racial justice uprisings and civil unrest. Far from homogenous, inherently progressive, or equitable, dominant time expresses the 24/7 chronologies of capital, long synchronized to racialized, gendered violence and oppression. The seemingly endless meter of production encloses people in temporal holds, defuturing communities, and imposing time-traps of debt and deadlines.

    Free
  • Strange Weather Exhibition Tour with Jennifer Gonzalez and Jordan Schnitzer

    Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Strange Weather: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation features contemporary art works which illuminate and reframe the boundaries of bodies and the environment. The artworks included in the exhibition span five decades, from 1970-2020, and are drawn together for how they creatively call attention to the impact and history of forced migrations, industrialization, global capitalism, and trauma on humans and the contemporary landscape.

    Free
  • Strange Weather Exhibition UCSC Alumni Reception

    Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Strange Weather: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation features contemporary art works which illuminate and reframe the boundaries of bodies and the environment. The artworks included in the exhibition span five decades, from 1970-2020, and are drawn together for how they creatively call attention to the impact and history of forced migrations, industrialization, global capitalism, and trauma on humans and the contemporary landscape.

    Free
  • Crossing Borders – An Evening of Philosophical Discussions

    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Avenue, Santa Cruz, California, United States

    Large and small, visible and hidden, borders weave in and out of our lives along varied dimensions. Some we can see, many we cannot. Some we celebrate, others confine us. Some we are aware of, many remain undiscovered. There are political borders and national borders; psychological, social, scientific, and biological borders. What are borders? Can […]