EXPO CHICAGO 2023: Dialogues April 16
@ Navy Pier
600 E Grand Ave, Chicago, IL, 60611
Opening Sunday, April 16th, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, April 16th
Presented in partnership with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), /Dialogues brings together leading curators, artists, designers, and arts professionals for a series of panel discussions, forums, and artistic discourse on topics of the moment, including institution building and public art.
12:00–1:00pm
ARCHIVES AND DIASPORA | MEMORY TRACED THROUGH ARTISTS IN EXPOSURE
Panelists | Aimé Iglesias Lukin (Americas Society), Agustín Díez Fischer (ESPIGAS), Iván Krassoievitch (Artist), Susana Wald (Artist)
This panel will explore the intersection of archives and diasporas, focusing partly on the research Iglesias Lukin conducted for This Must Be The Place: Latin American Artists in New York: 1965-1975, an exhibition and book born of her doctoral dissertation researching migrant artists in the city during the surge of the neo-avant gardes. In dialogue with Agustín Díez Fischer, director of the archive Fundación ESPIGAS, and artists Iván Krassoievitch and Susana Wald, the panel will explore how the migrant experience informs their life and practice, and how archives constitute a tool to keep a memory away from home. This panel is presented in partnership with Terremoto and will be followed by a book signing of This Must Be The Place.
1:30–2:00pm
SCREENING OF FOR FREEDOMS NEWS (FFN)
4:45–5:00pm
SCREENING OF BRENDAN FERNANDES: FREE FALL, FOR CAMERA (2019)
5:00–6:00pm
FREE FALL, FOR CAMERA | POST-SCREENING CONVERSATION
Join artist Brendan Fernandes after the screening of his film Free Fall, for Camera (2019), a continuation of his performance series Free Fall 49 with writer and critic Aruna D’Souza. Fernandes and D’Souza will discuss how the multimedia dance and video installation explores the falling body as a metaphor for queer politics, while also exploring how the performance and film aims to reclaim dance as an agent for freedom, protest and agency in the wake of the devastating attack on the PULSE nightclub in Orlando, FL 2016. The two will also discuss about Fernandes’s new work in/visible commissioned for the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway that examines the relationship between visibility and invisibility, as a common experience of marginalized groups. This panel is in partnership with Soho House Chicago.
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