Tuesday, February 21, 2023 at 5:00pm
Goldwin Smith Hall, 132
232 East Ave, Central Campus
Title: Decolonizing Visual Culture: Interventions on a North South Axis in the Americas.
Speakers: History of Art Faculty Jolene Rickard and Ananda Cohen-Aponte.
Is change possible? Can art, Material and visual culture influence change? What might instigate a shift in attitude hemispherically concerning the movement and reception of peoples in the Americas. What does structural change look like? These are the questions that Cornell University Art History Professors Ananda Cohen-Aponte and Jolene Rickard are delving into as a collaborative effort. Each bringing expertise from the global norht and south within the Americas, they locate structures of violence against indigenous people withing the Americas from the Doctrine of Discovery up to the United Nation Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples enacted in 2007. Their research recognizes Indigenous curatorial and artistic collaborations between Aotearoa, Australia, Canada and the United States while exposing thin and almost non-existent dialogue across North, Central and South America. Drawing upon case studies of contemporary artists and curatorial interventions that forge Indigenous and disporic connectivities across the hemisphere, Cohen-Aponte and Rickard explore the entanglements of race, coloniality, and place-based knowledge in the visual culture of the Americas.
