Art and Power
Thursday, May 12, 2022 5:30 pm – 8:35 pm CEST/GMT+2You are cordially invited to a student exhibition and joint reading exercise with author, art curator, photographer, filmmaker, political theorist, and professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University Ariella Aïsha Azoulay on Art and Power.
The artistic research projects in this exhibition are inspired by and working from Azoulay’s proposition in her book Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism (Verso, 2019) that it is not possible to decolonize the museum without decolonizing the imperial knowledge production and the technologies that make it possible. Azoulay argues that gestures of repatriation and reparation are inadequate if they persist to function within and uphold the histories, institutions and epistemologies that persevere today and are entrenched in ongoing imperial practices.
As part of the creative research component of the course Art and Power (AR191) taught by Prof. Hanan Toukan, students will unravel the intricacies of practices rooted in imperialism by demonstrating their creative research on topics such as colonialism and museums; nationalism and imperialism, state-building and art; Cold War and post 9/11 cultural diplomacy; art and the global economy, decolonizing museum initiatives, as well as migration, art and borders; curatorial politics, and more.
Alongside the exhibition students and interested members of the Bard community are invited to read and think with Azoulay about ways to unlearn imperialism and write a new (potential) history of the world.
Drinks and light refreshments will be served.
This event is generously funded by the Mellon Consortium on Forced Migration, Displacement and Education
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