In conjunction with Compositions, on view at the IAS, Maria Gaspar’s sculptural renderings of the jail’s fragments will be sonically and visually activated through performances over the course of the exhibition. These events will periodically make present the histories of people so often occluded by carceral structures and suggest new modes of transforming the wreckage […]
Join us on November 1 for a conversation between Lisa Dent, Elissa Blount Moorhead, and Maori Karmael Holmes about the problems and potentials of art institutions in the United States. The conversation will be mediated by Dr. Gina Dent. Art institutions have struggled with issues of inclusion and have often failed to serve communities of color. […]
Abdias Nascimento is one of the leading figures in the anti-racist and abolitionist struggle in contemporary Brazilian history. His contribution to the social and political sphere and the arts, theater, and human rights activism is invaluable. His life was marked by exile in the United States during the military dictatorship established in Brazil from the […]
The lecture Performative Meetings: 20 Years of Collaborations Between Social and Artistic Movements is part of the exhibition Seeing Through Stone, which explores artistic and activist practices aimed at abolishing carceral structures and questioning historically ingrained systems of oppression. The event focuses on two decades of collaborations between social and artistic movements, highlighting how these […]
