Making Space: Art and Generative Communal Practices III
Thursday, December 3, 12:00PM EST
Join us for a 3-part conversation series on solidarity, social justice, and communal care in museums, independent art spaces, and artistic projects. Convened and moderated by Ilaria Conti, an independent curator, and POWarts Steering Committee member, Francesca Altamura, invited guests will discuss their work toward ethical community practices in the contemporary art field and beyond. For this last session, join Lizania Cruz, artist, designer, curator; and Jasmine Hearn, choreographer, director, curator, organizer, and teaching artist.
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Ilaria Conti is an independent curator with a focus on research-based practices addressing social justice, decolonial processes, and the relationship between institutional infrastructures, communal care, and public engagement. Most recently, she served as Research Curator at the Centre Pompidou for Cosmopolis, a multiyear platform devoted to research-based art. Previously, she served as Exhibitions and Programs Director at CIMA New York, Assistant Curator of the 2016 Marrakech Biennale, and Samuel H. Kress Interpretive Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among other positions. Curated projects include ALT(ering) + SHIFT(ing) + COMM(uning) (2020), Labor/Art/Auratic Conditions (2020), Prove di R(i)esistenza (2020), Cosmopolis #2: Rethinking the Human (2019), Cosmopolis #1.5: Enlarged Intelligence (2018), Cosmopolis #1: Collective Intelligence, (2017); 6th Marrakech Biennale: Not New Now (2016).
Lizania Cruz is a Dominican participatory artist, designer, and curator interested in how migration affects ways of being & belonging. Through research, oral history, and audience participation, she creates projects that highlight a pluralistic narrative on migration. Cruz has been an artist-in-residence and fellow at the Laundromat Project Create Change (2018-2019), Agora Collective Berlin (2018), Design Trust for Public Space (2018), Recess Session (2019), IdeasCity:New Museum (2019), Stoneleaf Retreat (2019), Robert Blackburn Workshop Studio Immersion Project (SIP) (2019), A.I.R. Gallery (2020-2021), BRIClab: Contemporary Art (2020-2021), and Center for Books Arts (2020-2021).
Jasmine Hearn is from the occupied land of the Karankawa and Atapake people, now known as Houston, TX. A performer, director, choreographer, organizer, teaching artist, and a 2017 Bessie award winning performer, they are currently a company member with Urban Bush Women, a 2019 Jerome Foundation Jerome Hill Fellow, and a part of the collective, Skeleton Architecture. Their commitment to dance is an expansive practice that includes performance, collaboration, sound, memory-keeping, and story-telling. Jasmine has developed and shared solo and collaborative dance theater performances rooted in identity, memory, and facilitating creative space for feelings and fantasy. Jasmine also has creatively collaborated with multidisciplinary artists, Solange Knowles, Alisha B. Wormsley, Vanessa German, Ayanah Moor, Staycee Pearl, Holly Bass, BANDPortier, David Dorfman Dance, and Li Harris, which have produced solo and collective dance choreography for performances at the Guggenheim Museum, The Getty Center, Venice Biennale 2019, the Ford Foundation, and other internationally acclaimed art spaces such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and the Houston Arts Alliance.
*Right images courtesy of Whitney Browne Photography