Nicole R. Fleetwood & Jennifer C. Nash: Carceral Aesthetics
@ McCormick Foundation Center
1870 Campus Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, May 16th, from 5:15PM - 7PM
The Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED) presents: “Carceral Aesthetics” a lecture by Nicole R. Fleetwood (Rutgers) moderated by Jennifer C. Nash (Northwestern).
The event will take place on Thursday, May 16th, 2019 at 5:15pm in McCormick Foundation Center 3127.
Fleetwood explores various aesthetic practices of incarcerated artists in U.S. prisons. Her presentation considers how furtive planning an collective tactics of appropriating items owned by the state and claiming state resources and spaces are maneuvered to make art. She focus on how artists mix and create color; aestheticize legal documents; and use their prison indexes to make art. Fleetwood calls these numerous and overlapping aesthetic and political practices “carceral aesthetics.”
*****
Co-sponsored by: Department of African American Studies | Center for African American History | Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities | Program in American Studies | Department of Anthropology | Department of Art History | Asian American Studies Program | Comparative Literary Studies Program | Department of Communication Studies | Critical Theory Cluster | Department of English | Gender & Sexuality Studies Program | Latina & Latino Studies Program | Department of Philosophy | Department of Religious Studies | The Sexualities Project at Northwestern | Department of Sociology | The Graduate School | TGS Academic Affairs
Official Website
More events on this date
Tags: Carceral Aesthetics, Evanston, Jennifer C. Nash, McCormick Foundation Center, Nicole R. Fleetwood, Northwestern University
« previous event
next event »