Black Portraiture[s] V: Memory and The Archive Past. Present. Future.
Date: October 17th – 19th 2019 (Thursday – Saturday)
Location: New York University Kimmel Center for University Life, Washington Square Campus, New York
The conference will explore the making of visual archives, the narratives they tell, and the parameters that define them as objects of study. As visual collections, photographic archives present specific concerns — especially as digital technologies change the way knowledge is classified, stored, retrieved, and disseminated. The following questions will be considered: How does the gaze visualize and influence the control of historical narratives? What icons dominate the visual culture of slavery and its archives? How do other artistic narratives encode memory, violence, and subjectivities? What is the archive’s future and how does it provide fodder for social change or artistic innovation? How do social and economic histories, as well as experiences of race, class, gender and sexuality affect the construction, acquisition and maintenance of archives of the African Diaspora?
Sponsors:
Office of the President, Global Inclusion, Diversity, and Strategic Innovation, Office of University Relations and Public Affairs/Brooklyn, Office of the Provost, Office of the Dean – Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Photography & Imaging, NYU Institute of African American Affairs/Center for Black Visual Culture, NYU Center for the Humanities, NYU Africa House, Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, Interactive Telecommunications Program, Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at NYU.
Panels (Thursday, October 17th)
Call and Response: Poetics, Visuality, and Artist-Writers on the Archive
9:00 am – 10:30 am
Panelist:
Helina Metaferia, Sarah Stefana Smith, Natasha Oladokun, Lauren Russell
Moderator (s): Sarah Stefana Smith
Shadow Archives: Hidden Photographic Histories in the Caribbean
9:00 am – 10:30 am
Panelists:
Faith Smith, Deborah Thomas, Krista Thompson, Leniqueca Welcome
Moderator(s):
Deborah Thomas, Krista Thompson
Someone to Watch Over Me: Working with Documents, Films, and Stones in the Preservation of African-American History
9:00 am – 10:30 am
Panelists:
Ina Archer, Terri Francis, Charlene Regester
Contemporary Art – SA
10:45 am – 12:15 pm
Panelists:
Nocebo Bucibo, Lebohang Kganye, Sihle Motsa, Tebogo Radebe, Pfunzo Sidogi, Sue Williamson
Moderator(s):
Kellie Jones
Entanglements of Black Visual Culture: Blackness, Archives, and Per‐formatives
10:45 am – 12:15 pm
Panelists:
Tiffany Barber, Racquel Gates, Michael Gillespie, Oluremi Onabanjo, Samantha Sheppard
Moderator(s):
Michael Gillespie
Where We Gon Guh Burn?: Visualizing Resistance Narratives in the US Virgin Islands
10:45 am – 12:15 pm
Panelists:
La Vaughn Belle, Tami Navarro, Hadiya Sewer Gibney, Tiphanie Yanique
Moderator(s):
Cynthia Oliver
Race and Re-membering South America Brazil
10:45 am – 12:15 pm
Panelists:
Jairo Araujo, Eneida Sanches, Sofia Lima, Alexandre Bispo, Isaque Santos Pinheiro, Alinta Sara
Moderator(s):
Ulrich Baer
the STAYED & the STOLEN
1:00 p.m – 2:30 p.m
Panelists:
Esther Armah, Pearl Korkor Darkey, Treva B. Lindsey, Joan Morgan
Moderator(s):
Esther Armah
Performing the Archive: Archives as Resistance, Activism
1:00 p.m – 2:30 p.m
Panelists:
Rachel DeLauder, Ivan Forde, Erin Gray, Carolyn Grimstead, Justin Randolph Thompson
Moderator(s):
Antonia Lant
Representation Matters – The Evolving Black LGBTQ Archive
1:00 p.m – 2:30 p.m
Panelists:
Jennifer Brody, Steven G. Fullwood, Thomas Allen Harris, Katina Parker
Moderator(s):
Katina Parker
Black Feminisms: from Afrosurrealism to “the Wake”
1:00 p.m – 2:30 p.m
Panelists:
Marthia Fuller, Delande Justinvil, Dell M. Hamilton, Carmel Ohman
Moderator(s):
Layla West
Creating States of Being: Independence, Agency, Criticality (A Creating Interference Project (CIP)
2:45 p.m – 4:15 p.m
Panelists:
Amal Alhaag, Barby Asante, Hannah Jones, Roshini Kempadoo
Moderator(s):
Roshini Kempadoo
Contemporary Art – Caribbean and South America
2:45 p.m – 4:15 p.m
Panelists:
Terry Boddie, Deborah Jack, Marci Kwon, Bianca Moran, Zenzii Michelle Serieux
Moderator(s):
Grace Aneiza Ali
Iconicity, Icons
2:45 p.m – 4:15 p.m
Panelists:
Liz Andrews, Simone Austin, Sarah Khan, Sarah Richter, Gail Shaw-Clemons
Moderator(s):
Lewis Watts
Women, Femme, Feminisms, Girlhood & Intersectionality – PORTRAITURE
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Panelists:
Anne Cross, Chantaneice Kitt, Lo Smith, Claudine Taaffe
Moderator(s):
Jamaica Gilmer
Contemporary Art – US
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Panelists:
Noel W. Anderson, Malcolm Lizzappi, Gabrielle Moser, Anni Pullagura
Moderator(s):
Christa Clarke
Portraiture: Painting, Watercolor, Prints
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Panelists:
Joy Davis, Madeleine HuntEhrlich, Kristina Huang, Rachel Newman
Moderator(s):
Ellyn Toscano
Black Feminist Histories: Farah Jasmine Griffin in Conversation with Angela Davis and Gina Dent
6:45 pm – 7:30 pm
Panels (Friday, October 18th)
Race and Remembering in the United States (Monuments and Museums)
9:00 am – 10:30 am
Panelists:
Natasha Henry, Lynn Jones. Rachel Lobo, Raven Spiratos, Syrus Marcus Ware
Moderator(s):
Rosie Gordon-Wallace
Slavery to the Present: Black Performance Art and The Archive
9:00 am – 10:30 am
Panelists:
Dominique Duroseau, Ayana Evans, Tsedaye Makonnen, Uri McMillan, Nyugen Smith, Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste
Moderator(s):
Uri McMillan
Slavery and Art 1619
9:00 am – 10:30 am
Panelists:
Holly Brewer, Gloria Browne-Marshall, Adiva Lawrence, Kamau Ware
Moderator(s):
Cheryl Finley
Women and New Biographies
9:00 am – 10:30 am
Panelists:
Mia L. Bagneris, Sarah Blackwood, Aston Gonzalez, Khaliah Mangrum, Jennifer Williams
Moderator(s):
Aston Gonzalez
Race and Re-membering in Canada
9:00 am – 10:30 am
Panelists:
Natasha Henry, Lynn Jones. Rachel Lobo, Raven Spiratos, Syrus Marcus Ware
Moderator(s):
Rosie Gordon-Wallace
Choice and the Archive: Photography of Africa and the African Diaspora
10:45 am – 12:15 pm
Panelists:
Emilie Boone, Giulia Paoletti, Drew Thompson, Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa
Moderator(s):
Alexa Dilworth
Portraitures: Photography and History
10:45 am – 12:15 pm
Panelists:
Nomvuyo Horwitz, Jovonna Jones, Hannah-Rose Murray, Adreinne Waheed, Kimberly WallaceSanders, Paulette Young
Moderator(s):
Amanda Boston
Race and Re-membering UK, Europe, and the Caribbean
10:45 am – 12:15 pm
Panelists:
Cecile Bishop, Artwell Cain, Dowoti Desir-Hounon Houna II, Isaac Ginsberg Miller, Nicola Andrea Lo Calzo
Moderator(s):
Trica Keaton
Gaze and its Return
10:45 am – 12:15 pm
Panelists:
Brittney Michelle Edmonds, Catherine McKinley, Spring Ulmer, Dionne Walker
Moderator(s):
fayemi shakur
Photography, Publishing, and the Archive
10:45 am – 12:15 pm
Panelists:
Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Romi Crawford, Amy Mooney, Sirpa Salenius, Valentine Umansky
Moderator(s):
Lorie Novak
Organized Crime in US Visual Culture
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Panelists:
Elizabeth Hinton, Michael Ralph, Maya Singhal, Leah Wright Rigueur
Moderator(s):
Black Sugar/Azúcar Negra: Thinking Blackness, Latinidad, and Afropessimism(s) Through Diasporic Queer and Feminist Art
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Panelists:
Jillian Hernandez, AnaMaurine Lara, Courtney Desiree Morris, Anya Wallace
Moderator(s):
Anya Wallace
#ForBlackHealing: Laughter, Sharing, & Black Secrecy
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Panelists:
Sean Henry-Smith, Pastiche Lumumba, Sean-Kierre Lyons, Rafia Santana
Moderator(s):
Rafia Santana
Diasporic Depository: Convergences of Land, Water, Space, and Identity
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Panelists:
Danielle Abrams, Kimberly Juanita Brown, Robin McDowell, Marla McLeod
Moderator(s):
Lisa Lowe
On Black Death
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Panelists:
Anna-Lisa Cox, DeAngela L. Duff, Chiyuma Elliott, Kia Melchor Hall, Nataleah Hunter-Young, Michele Prettyman
Moderator(s):
Rikki Byrd
Making Themselves The Subjects of History’: Picturing Black Girlhood, 1800 to 2019
2:45 pm – 4:15 pm
Panelists:
Nydia Blas, Zoraida Lopez, Nazera Sadiq Wright, Scheherazade Tillet
Moderator(s):
Kanyinsola Anifowoshe
The Sonic 15th Century to Today: Music and Influences
2:45 pm – 4:15 pm
Panelists:
Melay Araya, Michael Dinwiddie, De Angela L. Duff, Robert Holmes, Brennan Williams, Dyana Williams
Moderator(s):
Michael Dinwiddie
Archipelagic Diaspora: An Archive of Ten Years of Afro-Mediterranean Mobility
2:45 pm – 4:15 pm
Panelists:
Scott Alves Barton, Sarah DeMott, Maurice Eriaremhien, Michele Thorpe
Moderator(s):
Michelle Stephens
Storytelling, Ghosting, and Spirits: From Whiskey to Religion to Food
2:45 pm – 4:15 pm
Panelists:
Jean-Paul Colleyn, Marcia Michael, Michelle Renee Perkins, Jennifer Van Horn
Moderator(s):
Kalia Brooks Nelson
Mediating Identities
2:45 pm – 4:15 pm
Panelists:
Genel Ambrose, Paul Cato and Summer Sloane-Britt, Bill Gaskins, Christopher Harris, Zun Lee, Jess Saldaña
Moderator(s):
Leslie Willis-Lowry
Slave Trade Narratives
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Panelists:
Dionti Davis, Rachel Engmann, Danielle Lee, Cheryl Sterling
Moderator(s):
Jennifer Morgan
The Afterlife of Slavery: Visual, Textual, Sonic Arts and the Archives of Catastrophic Memory
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Panelists:
Cheryl Clarke, Alexis De Veaux, Jenna Wortham
Moderator(s):
Alexis De Veaux
Re-reading the Archive: The Evolving Role of Curating
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Panelists:
Nana Adusei-Poku, Claudi Carreras Guillén, Angelica Dass, Steed Vernyl Davidson and Leah Gipson, Alessandra Di Maio
Moderator(s):
Shelley Rice
Theater and the Archive
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Panelists:
Kupenda Auset, Amalia Mallard, Camille Owens, Emily Wilbourne, Noelle Lorraine Williams
Moderator(s):
Matthew Morrison
Art Movements, Africana Studies, Fests and Exhibitions: Africa, Europe, US
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Panelists:
Michal Raz-Russo, Sahar D. Sattarzadeh, Joseph Underwood
Moderator(s):
Renée Blake
Panels (Saturday, October 19th)
Archival Noise: Black Women, Sonic Remains, and Afterlives in Transatlantic Slavery Archives
10:45 am – 12:15 pm
Panelists:
Augustus Durham, Janée Moses, Sasha Panaram, Petal Samuel
Moderator(s):
Sasha Panaram
Our Archives: Love through the Mirror
10:45 am – 12:15 pm
Panelists:
Lauryn Darden, Eric Hart, Jalexis James, Mai Mageed, Anthony Rivera
Moderator(s):
Eric Hart
New Media, Techno, Archive, and Art
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Panelists:
Jennifer Bajorek, Dorothy Berry, Neta Bomani, Nicola Brandt, Ari Melenciano
Moderator(s):
Darnell-Jamal Lisby
Subject to Scrutiny: Female Subjectivities, Blackness, and Visual Archives
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Panelists:
Kéla Jackson, Gunja SenGupta, Anne Collins Smith, Holly Smith, Bernida Webb-Binder
Moderator(s):
Bernida Webb-Binder
(Im)Material Beings: New Approaches in the Study of Portraits of the Unknown and Unnamed Black Subject
2:45 pm – 4:15 pm
Panelists:
Mora Beauchamp-Byrd, Jacqueline Bishop, Erica Moiah James, Patricia Joan Saunders
Moderator(s):
Erica Moiah James
Queer Discourse and the Archive
2:45 pm – 4:15 pm
Panelists:
Sarin Drew, Greg FosterRice, Steven G. Fullwood, Raimi Gbadamosi, Hillary Spencer
Moderator(s):
Steven G. Fullwood