Black Portraiture[s] VI: Absent/ed Presence
Date: October 13th – 16th 2021 (Wednesday – Saturday)
Location: Agnes Etherington Art Center, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada
BLACK PORTRAITURE[S]: Absent/ed Presence, 2021, will be the first of the Black Portraiture[s] series to take place in Canada. This year, we will explore Blackness as absent/ed presence in art, art history, performance, archives, museums, cultural production, and technology.
This year’s conference will be a little different than previous incarnations of the Black Portraiture[s] series. Due to travel restrictions and the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s conference will take place virtually in partnership with and hosted by the Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen’s University.
Sponsors:
The Ford Foundation, Toronto Arts Council, The Institute of African American Affairs (IAAA) & Center for Black Visual Culture (CBVC) at New York University, Inclusive Community Fund at Queen’s University, The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Wedge Curatorial Projects, Toronto Arts Council, Institute of Emerging Media Photography & Imaging NYU Tisch, Union Gallery, Gallery of Contemporary Arts, Mercer Union Center for Contemporary Art.
Panels (Thursday, October 14th)
Black Sounds
9:30 am – 11:00 am
Panelists:
Matthew D. Morrison, Samantha Ege, Isaac A. Jean-François, Imani Uzuri
Moderator(s):
Matthew D. Morrison
Our Sounds, Our Home
11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Panelists:
Ola Mohammed, Ladin Awad, Ellie Armon Azoulay, Kristin Moriah,
Moderator(s):
Safia Siad
Black Art Librarians: Vision and Image
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Panelists:
Simone Fujita, Lori Salmon, Rayna Andrews
Moderator(s):
What That Archive Do, Though?
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Panelists:
Mark Anthony Neal, Treva Lindsey, Joan Morgan,
Moderator(s):
Joan Morgan,
Panels (Friday, October 15th)
Portraitures and Other Lives of the Image: Perspectives from Southerner African Histories
9:00 am – 10:30 am
Panelists:
Warren Crichlow, Patricia Hayes, Jordache Ellapen, Kass Banning
Moderator(s):
Warren Crichlow
Here/There, There/Gone: Blackness in Contemporary Visual Art and Performance
11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Panelists:
Lisa B. Thompson, Isaiah Matthew Wooden, Stephanie Batiste, Jakeya Caruthers, Christina Knight
Moderator(s):
Isaiah Wooden
Methodological Vision
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Panelists:
Gabrielle Moser, Hampton Smith, Cecilio M. Cooper, Rachel Burke
Moderator(s):
Michèle Pearson Clarke
Mapping Blackness
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Panelists:
Jung Joon Lee, Alessandra Turchetti, Rachel Lobo, Iliriana Fontoura Rodrigues
Moderator(s):
Daniel Mcneil
Panel (Saturday, October 16th)
Absent/ed Presence: Curating Black in Canada
9:00 am – 10:00 am
Panelists:
Dominique Fontaine
Moderator(s):
Geneviève Wallen
Radical Continuities*
11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Panelists:
Raven Spiratos K. Melchor Quick Hall, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński
Moderator(s):
Qanita Lilla
Digital Networks, Aesthetics, and Black Death
1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Panelists:
Katrina Sellinger, Maleke Glee, Zainab Aliyu
Moderator(s):
Nataleah Hunter-Young
It Stays With You: Echoes, Reverbs, Expansion
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Panelists:
Michele Prettyman, Lauren Mcleod Cramer, Alessandra Raengo, Chip Linscott
Moderator(s):
Nataleah Hunter-Young