Activist and scholar Nicholas
Mirzoeff, visual artist Carl Pope, and poet Karen Pope discuss their
collaborative work, revisit their 2018 publication, The Appearance of Black Lives Matter, from the perspective of our
current racial reckoning, and explore the challenges of allyship, the role of art and scholarship in revealing and dismantling systems of oppression, and more.
Multi-disciplinary performing artist Margaret Laurena Kemp discusses her recent work during lockdown, and introduces a virtual screening of AntigoneNOW, a contemporary response to the classical play rehearsed and created online between the USA, Singapore, Japan, and the UK using mobile phones, iPad and video.
Delhi-based artistic trio Raqs Media Collective examine how art can be a form of renewal; the importance of ‘luminous care;’
the challenges of installing and opening an exhibition virtually; and how Raqs’
practice and this moment point to new ways of approaching creation, culture,
sociality, and publicness.
Join artist, musician, and writer Lex Brown and
performance artist, comedian, and writer Kristina Wong for a wide-ranging
conversation on dismantling internalized and external racism and sexism through
art and humor, as well as how they draw on personal experiences to explore systems of power and create performances that blur the roles of artist and audience.