Jeffrey Gibson BARD Convening in Venice
if I read you
what I wrote bear
in mind I wrote it
*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) has organized 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 colour 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.
Convening Participants include Jeffrey Gibson, Kathleen Ash-Milby, Dr. Miranda Belarde-Lewis, Sonya Clark, Christian Ayne Crouch, Natalie Diaz, Philip J. Deloria, Divide and Dissolve, Ginger Dunnill, Layli Long Soldier, Dinaw Mengetsu, Brandi Norton (Iñupiaq), Jamie Okuma, Jami Powell, Jolene Rickard, The Jazz Professor, White People Killed Them and Abigail Winograd.
*Courtesy of Layli Long Soldier, Whereas (2017), courtesy of Graywolf Press
Thursday 24 October, 2:30 - 6pm CEST
Welcome and Remarks
Opening Panel (Afternoon)
Performance: Divide & Dissolve
Friday 25 October, 9am - 6pm CEST
Session 1 (Morning)
Session 2 (Afternoon)
Reading: Layli Long Soldier
Saturday October 26, 9am - 11:30pm CEST
Session 3 (Morning)
Performance: White People Killed Them
Closing Celebration (Evening)
