Key details
Time
- 6:30pm – 8pm
Location
- Online
Price
- Free
Who could attend
- Everyone
Type
- Lecture
In the sixth lecture in our Re-Possession International Lecture Series, we will reach to the past in order to activate revolutionary potential for the present and future. Excavating and activating histories and present of toxicity, pollution and oppression sedimented both in the bodies and land of the US South, Imani Jacqueline Brown and Dread Scott will show us through their works, the importance of claiming and imagining liberation and radically different societies here and now, by conjuring repressed embers of the suppressed resistance.
Imani Jacqueline Brown is an artist, activist, and researcher from New Orleans. Her work investigates the 'continuum of extractivism', which spans from settler-colonial genocide and slavery to fossil fuel production, gentrification, and police and corporate impunity. In exposing the layers of violence and resistance that comprise the foundations of US society, she opens up space to imagine a path to ecological reparations. Imani works across the US, as well as internationally in the UK, Poland, and Germany. She generates public actions, occupies commercial billboards, writes polemics, delivers performance lectures, and mobilises a counter-cartographic strategy she calls cartographic unravelling––disentangling and analysing the spatial logics used by colonial-corporate agents to make geography, unmake communities, and break Earth’s geology. She regularly engages with the United Nations, including by delivering testimony and submitting reports as an expert witness to organs of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
Dread Scott is a visual artist who makes revolutionary art to propel history forward. Activating suppressed history of resistance against oppression and subjugation, his work looks towards liberated futures. His works are exhibited across the US and internationally. In 1989, his art became the centre of national controversy over its transgressive use of the American flag, while he was a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. President G.H.W. Bush called his art “disgraceful” and the entire US Senate denounced and outlawed this work. Dread became part of a landmark Supreme Court case when he and others defied the federal law outlawing his art by burning flags on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. In 2019 he presented Slave Rebellion Reenactment, a community-engaged project that reenacted the largest rebellion of enslaved people in US history.
Upcoming Events
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Thursday 17 March Amin Taha Full Details to follow...
Thursday 31 March, 18:30 (UK) Waste as Pedagogy Marco Arniceli and Justin McGuirk.
Thursday 5 May, 18:30 (UK) An Analytical Militant Labour at All Scales. (Schizoanalysis for all) Godofredo Pereira & Susana Caló.
Friday 13 May, 18:30 (UK) Against the Line Charmaine Chua, Fred Moten & Stefano Harney.
