10/14/2016
Definitely worth seeing !
With Deborah Cullen, director & Chief Curator, The Wallach Art Gallery
Free Public Symposium next Friday, Oct 21:
BEYOND THE FRAME:
Contemporary Photography from Africa and the Diaspora
Columbia University, 501 Schermerhorn Hall
Free RSVP here:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/wallach/events/index.html
PROGRAM:
1:00 PM Welcome & Introductions
Artur Walther, Founder, The Walther Collection, and Z.S. Strother, Riggio Professor of African Art, Columbia University
Session 1 โ Artistic Practices
1:30 PM Opening remarks by Session Chair Chika Okeke-Agulu, Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Art, Princeton University
1:40 PM The Expanded Subject: New Perspectives in Photographic Portraiture from Africa, Sandrine Colard, PhD, Columbia University
2:00 PM Itinerancy Through the Lens
Andrew Esiebo, Multimedia artist and photographer
Dawit L. Petros, Visual Artist
M. Neelika Jayawardane, Associate Professor of English, State University of New York-Oswego
2:30 PM Remarks by Chair, Questions, and Discussion
3.00 PM BREAK
Session 2 - Contexts
3:30 PM Opening remarks by Session Chair Kerryn Greenberg, Curator (International Art), Tate Modern
3:45 PM Platforms for African Photography
Antawan Byrd, PhD candidate, Northwestern University
John Fleetwood, Director, PHOTO, Johannesburg
Eva Langret, Tiwani Contemporary, London
Artur Walther, Founder, The Walther Collection
Moderated by Allison Moore, Assistant Professor, African and Contemporary Art History, University of South Florida
4.50 PM Publishing and Criticism of African Photography
Emmanuel Iduma, Fiction writer and art critic
Missla Libsekal, Founder, Another Africa
Yvette Mutumba (via skype), Curator, Contemporary And
John Peffer, Associate Professor of Contemporary/Nonwestern Art History, Ramapo College
Moderated by Brendan Wattenberg, Managing Editor, Aperture Magazine
5.55 PM Remarks by Chair, Questions, and Discussion
6.20 PM Closing Remarks: Deborah Cullen, Director & Chief Curator, The Wallach Art Gallery
6.30 PM Reception at The Wallach Art Gallery, which will be open for viewing The Expanded Subject: New Perspectives in Photographic Portaiture from Africa (8th Floor, Schermerhorn Hall
BEYOND THE FRAME is organized by Joshua Chuang, Evelyn Owen, and Oluremi C. Onabanjo for The Walther Collection and Giulia Paoletti, Joshua I. Cohen, and Sandrine Colard for The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery and the Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University.