A Convening to consider Jeffrey Gibson: the space in which to place me

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A Convening to consider Jeffrey Gibson: the space in which to place me

The Center for Indigenous Studies at Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson, New York) will organize a convening in Venice on the relationship of Indigenous North American art and cultures to global histories. Diverse speakers, including practitioners, academics, artists, and theorists, will address the interdisciplinary, transnational nature of Jeffrey Gibson's work in the U.S. Pavilion. The convening will consider how Indigenous aesthetics, futurity, and arts intersect with global practices and modernism. Panels on beads, materiality, economies of labor and trade, aesthetics, poetry, performance, silhouette, and color will celebrate contemporary Indigenous artists, writers, and activists while examining the continued segregation of Indigenous voices in conversations regarding taste making, trade, modernity, and power.

Participants include Jeffrey Gibson, Kathleen Ash-Milby, Cristina Baldacci, Dr. Miranda Belarde-Lewis, Sonya Clark, Christian Ayne Crouch, Natalie Diaz, Philip J. Deloria, Divide and Dissolve, Ginger Dunnill, Layli Long Solider, Dinaw Mengetsu, Brandi Norton (Iñupiaq), Jamie Okuma, Jami Powell, Jolene Rickard, The Jazz Professor, Franca Tamisari, White People Killed Them, and Abigail Winograd. 

Event registration is required.

Schedule of events:

October 24: Welcome and Remarks, Opening Panel (Afternoon), and Performance: Divide & Dissolve

October 25: Session 1 (Morning), Session 2 (Afternoon), and Reading: Layli Long Soldier

October 26: Session 3 (Morning), Performance: White People Killed Them, and Closing Celebration (Evening)