Art of Collective Care & Responsibility Teach-In Opening Day - BLC
Opening Remarks - Ms. Samaria Rice and Keynote Address - Dr. Christina Sharpe
Thursday, December 3, 2020
The opening program features reflections from activist Ms. Samaria Rice, mother of Tamir Rice and founder of the Tamir Rice Foundation (7:50 – 18:49) and a keynote address by Dr. Christina Sharpe, author of In the Wake: On Blackness and Being and Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects (30:44 – 59:03).
Moderated by La Tanya S. Autry and Key Jo Lee.
Session features a live musical performance by Fay Victor (1:01:00 – 1:16:24).
Meditation by Dr. Aimee Meredith Cox (19:21 – 27:50).
TEACH-IN
ART OF COLLECTIVE CARE & RESPONSIBILITY
HANDLING IMAGES OF BLACK SUFFERING & DEATH
Black Liberation Center, December 2020
December 3, 4, 6, 11, 13
The Art of Collective Care & Responsibility Teach-In welcomes museum professionals, educators, community organizers, artists, activists, writers, students, and others to learn about our collective power to oppose exploitation and antiBlack racism in the visual arts fields.
The teach-In is an education-focused 5-day event featuring a keynote lecture, two roundtable panels, guided meditation, live musical performances, and an educational resource guide.
Teach-In presenters include Samaria Rice, Dr. Christina Sharpe, Alexandra Bell, William C. Anderson, Dr. Kirsten P. Buick, Sheila Pree Bright, Dr. Kelli Morgan, Dr. Izetta Mobley, Teressa Raiford, Amanda D. King, Case Bargé, Fay Victor, Dr. Aimee Meredith Cox, Key Jo Lee, and La Tanya S. Autry.
Art of Collective Care & Responsibility: Handling Images of Black Suffering & Death teach-in is a project of the Black Liberation Center, founded by La Tanya S. Autry, Gund Curator in Residence, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, in association with Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland and Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center.
Recordings available: Opening Day, Roundtable 1 and 2.
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Roundtable 1: Black Trauma/Death Imagery is Always Spectacle
Friday, December 4, 2020
This discussion considers the historical governing role of Black trauma and death imagery, representational politics, and institutional power dynamics when displaying these images. Panelists include writer William C. Anderson, artist Alexandra Bell, Dr. Kirsten P. Buick, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, and Dr. Christina Sharpe.
Moderated by La Tanya S. Autry and Key Jo Lee.
Meditation by Dr. Aimee Meredith Cox.
Dr. Aimee Meredith Cox (8:43 – 17:08)
Panel conversation (19:32 – 1:20:00)
Roundtable 2: Developing a Practice of Collective Care
Friday, December 11, 2020
This discussion centers on meanings of collective care, strategies for injecting cultural competency in museums and other institutions, and possibilities of fostering collective care as professional practice. Panelists include artists Sheila Pree Bright and Amanda D. King, curator and scholar Dr. Kelli Morgan, cultural historian Dr. Izetta Mobley, and community organizer Teressa Raiford. Moderated by La Tanya S. Autry and Key Jo Lee. Session features a live musical performance by Case Bargé. Meditation by Dr. Aimee Meredith Cox.
Dr. Aimee Meredith Cox (7:20 – 15:04)
Panel conversation (15:10 – 1:21:18)
Session features a live musical performance by Case Bargé (1:21:26 – 1:27:05)