5 p.m. Current exhibition on view until 10 pm
7:30 p.m. Lecture and Discussion | PART 2 Museums as Site for Cultural Change: Curating with Care and Careful Curation
Introduction by Â鶹ӰÊÓ Associate Professor of Art History Phyllis J. Jackson
Reception to follow
Wake, ship, hold, weather: Christina Sharpe, professor of humanities at York University, will discuss these four notions in connection to questions of existence and non-existence as a Black person in the world from a historical and contemporary perspective. With these four words, each loaded with double meanings in relation to slavery, colonialism, and migration, she will focus on the symbolism of the slave ship. Sharpe will pull from her book Black. Still. Life., which works through multiple meanings of still and still life in order to think about Blackness in the museum and in contemporary art and visual culture.
