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.
The Sesnon Gallery Speak Up Series aims to provide a safe space for students and the UCSC community to engage with ideas generated from the exhibition Barring Freedom and beyond. The Sesnon Gallery at UC Santa Cruz encourages interdisciplinary discourse through the lens of the arts.
Join us for the next event in Sesnon Gallery Speak Up Series, featuring a discussion with Professor Sharon Daniel currently in Barring Freedom on view at the San José Museum of Art.
Focus will particularly be paid to Daniel's installation series Undoing Time and her new interactive documentary, Exposed, as the basis for a conversation on prison labor and the incongruity between the conditions of prisoners and the promise of constitutional freedom.
The Sesnon Gallery Speak Up Series aims to provide a safe space for students and the UC Santa Cruz community to engage with ideas generated from the exhibition Barring Freedom. Sesnon Gallery Speak Up presents Revolutionary Greetings!, a series of events focused on letter writing and open discussion about connecting with people who are incarcerated.
