Public Events for the 15th Annual Goldfarb Summer Institute at York University

15th Annual Goldfarb Summer Institute Public Events
York University

Many key art historians, artists, curators, and others thinking with the visual do so through anti-colonial discourse and critical race theory to disturb the White, colonial, Eurocentric roots that undergird the field and the residues that remain in the discipline. Consider for example, the region-specific genealogies so foundational to art history. What would it mean to trespass such borders? Where is the line? And by extension, how are the formal characteristics of a border generative in art making and art thinking? By emphasizing Black and Brown art histories that reorder and disorder the bordered logics of the discipline and that imagine possibilities for the visual beyond surveillance regimes, this intensive graduate seminar in Visual Art and Art History elaborates on the border as a political tool, a conceptual device, and an aesthetic gesture. As a part of the Summer Institute we are hosting a number of public events on York’s Keele Campus, including a book launch, a panel discussion, two artist’s talks and two screenings. See the schedule below, and welcome to the 15th Annual Goldfarb Summer Institute, 2023.

Public Events:

Fri. May 5, 4-6pm
Book Talk
Lahore Cinema with Iftikhar Dadi
Location: Accolade East Building Room 244

Thu. May 11, 4-6pm
Panel Discussion
On Curating Borders: Eunice Bélidor, Sarah Rifky, Anna Shah Hoque, and Cheryl Sim; moderated by Marissa Largo
Location: Accolade East Building Room 244

Fri. May 12, 4-6pm
Artist Talk
Divya Mehra in Conversation with Natasha Bissonauth
Location: Accolade East Building Room 244

Thu. May 18, 2:30-5pm
Film screening + Discussion
Photo Booth (John Greyson); discussant Tammer El-Sheikh
Location: Ross Building N102

Fri. May 19, 2:30-5pm
Film Screening + Discussion
A trilogy by Larissa Sansour; discussant Amanda Boulos
Location: Ross Building N102

For more details please visit our website.

If you have any questions, please contact Tammer El-Sheikh
tammer75@yorku.ca

York University
4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3