public Programs
perFOREmance/december Conversation: Thomas J. Lax in conversation with Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Narcissister and Jacolby Satterwhite Saturday, December 15, 2012 7 pm Assistant Curator Thomas J. Lax moderates a discussion with Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Narcissister and Jacolby Satterwhite as a culmination of their participation in perFOREmance/december. While their practices are distinct, their work shares several similarities. Each artist works in multiple media, performs in contexts both within and beyond the museum and the contemporary art world, and tests the limits of the live body. How do these artists understand ideas of physical presence and bodily capacity? How do different sites affect their approach to making live work? How does performance relate to other media such as drawing, printmaking and photography?
Mythological Creatures and Cultural Resistance: Lauren Haynes in conversation with Firelei Báez, Caitlin Cherry and Yashua Klos Thursday, January 10, 2013 7 pm The artists presented in this conversation construct artworks that operate in space between reality and fantasy. Their mythological creatures emerge from observations of the multiple environments that create the settings for their works. Firelei Báez draws upon Caribbean folklore, interrupting a narrative that privileges social and racial categories, 28
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and inserting characters whose identities are comprised of elements of the human, animal and natural worlds. In her large-scale paintings, Caitlin Cherry uses a golem as an avatar for the human race to explore issues ranging from adolescence to political histories. Yashua Klos’s woodblock collages emerge out of the detritus of the urban landscape, revealing faces, faces that challenge the notion of males as both present and absent in the socially constructed urban core.
Lost and Found: Assistant Curator Naima J. Keith in conversation with Abigail DeVille, Valerie Piraino and Cullen Washington Jr. Thursday, February 7, 2013 7 pm Since the 1960s, assemblage has become emblematic of works that reflect the charged political climate of postwar America. The art form, in which natural and manufactured found materials are assembled into threedimensional structures, was used by artists such Betye Saar and John Outterbridge to produce complex objects that engaged issues including the civil rights movement, the war in Vietnam and the censorship of art. For many contemporary artists, found objects have been used for other means. Abigail DeVille employs assemblage, painting and sculpture to make the invisible visible. Valerie Piraino utilizes family memorabilia to create site-specific installations that disrupt our understanding of family history and memory. Several of Cullen Washington Jr.’s works incorporate found objects that bear witness to the Southern culture in which he was born. This lively discussion seeks to question the category of “assemblage” as a critical practice or discursive field, and that addresses specific moments in history and the transformation of assemblage in contemporary art.
perFOREmance/february Conversation: Fred Moten in conversation with Jamal Cyrus, Steffani Jemison and Harold Mendez Thursday, February 21, 2013 7:30 pm Fred Moten—Duke University Helen L. Bevington Professor of Modern Poetry and acclaimed author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (2003)— moderates a discussion with Jamal Cyrus, Steffani Jemison and Harold Mendez to launch their participation in perFOREmance/ february. Building off of Moten’s groundbreaking contributions to performance studies, theories of improvisation and the history of the interdisciplinary black avant-garde, this discussion brings together three artists who have collaborated with one another and will present new performance-based works for Fore.
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