Events
Mark Salvatus — Visiting Artist Lecture Series
Tuesday, March 2 at 6:30pm to 7:30pm
Art & Art History YouTube Channel
Mark Salvatus (b. 1980) studied at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila and since 2006 has produced his artistic project as “Salvage Projects” working across various disciplines and media. Basing it to the word ‘salvage’ or to save or rescue which is also the meaning of Salvatus' surname, he builds direct and indirect engagements using objects, photography, archives, videos, installations, participatory projects, and platforms that present different outcomes of energies and experiences. Salvatus preoccupations are based on constant movements and travels - coming from the countryside to the city and elsewhere, addressing and building new imaginations of the contemporary land –urban and rural, the global migrant and the vernacular historiographies. He is interested in communication and miscommunication as a form and as a structure and not as a process. His practice deals a lot with collecting, repetition and series based on lived experiences and the artists relationship to the world.
Image: Dancers, 2020 — Video installation, t-shirt, bamboo, Installed in different sites, Kyoto Art Center. The work “Dancers” features a common souvenir, T-shirts printed with city names. As a part of the cycle of excessive movements, these shirts were collected from secondhand shops in the Philippines and are attached to bamboo sticks as if they are a flag used in a game, war etc to indicate a scenario in the future and bring a post-apocalyptic feeling.
Mellon Sawyer Seminar "Deep Horizons" Lecture
Edgar Heap of Birds
Lecture: "Spirit Citizen, Provocative Native American Public Art and Studio Practice"
Today! Monday, March 1 at 1:00pm to 2:30pm
The artworks of HOCK E AYE VI EDGAR HEAP OF BIRDS include multi- disciplinary forms of public art messages, large scale drawings, Neuf Series acrylic paintings, prints, works in glass and monumental porcelain enamel on steel outdoor sculpture. He was recently named an USA Ford Fellow in 2112 and Distinguished Alumni, University of Kansas in 2014.
Nicholas Mirzoeff
Lecture: "The Natural History of White Supremacy."
Tuesday, March 9 at 5:00pm
Nicholas Mirzoeff is a visual activist, working at the intersection of politics and global/digital visual culture. In 2017 his book The Appearance of Black Lives Matter was published as a free e-book by NAME Publications and then in 2018 it came out as a limited edition hard-cover with a graphic essay by Carl Pope and a poem by Karen Pope (sold out).
Abstract: This talk is part of my effort to think of white as a verb and whiteness as a practice. It looks at how nature is made into by whiteness by the practices of settler colonialism and named as "natural history." Beginning with plantation cultivation, I spend time with Audubon, his Birds of America, and the formation of US ornithology as a way of seeing in order to think about what has become known as the Central Park birdwatching incident, on the same day as the murder of George Floyd. Just yards from that place is the American Museum of Natural History, which institutionalized the relationship of nature and white supremacy. Its racializing statue of Theodore Roosevelt hunting has been protested by Indigenous people since 1971 and was finally set to be removed after the 2020 protests. Can this removal open the possibility to see "nature" other than as death?