From the image campaigns of anti-slavery movements to the visuals emerging around the current uprisings against policing and prisons in the United States, the wide-ranging conversation will delve into the history and present relationships between art, aesthetics, and abolition.
Visualizing Abolition continues with artist Maria Gaspar, professor of American Indian Studies Joanne Barker (Lenape, citizen of the Delaware Tribe of Indians), and professor and historian of race, policing, immigration, and incarceration Kelly Lytle Hernández.
Join us for the next conversation for Visualizing Abolition focusing on technology, surveillance, and contemporary art with American Artist, Ruha Benjamin, and Simone Browne. American Artist is a contemporary artist working in video, installation, new media, and writing to consider how structures of racism and labor intersect with networked life and digital systems.
Beth Richie, University of Illinois, Chicago, Erica Meiners, Northeastern Illinois University, and Sonya Clark, Amherst College, Western Massachusetts, join us for a conversation on feminist―queer, anti-capitalist, grassroots, and women of color— organizing and abolition for the next Visualizing Abolition event.
