Apr. 19
4:00–5:30 pm
Zoom
On April 19, the Working Group on Slavery and Visual Culture will launch its first digital exhibit, Visualizing/Performing Blackness in the Afterlives of Slavery: A Caribbean Archive, curated by Danielle Roper (Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in Latin American Literature, University of Chicago).
The exhibit will feature the work of nine performance and visual artists from the Caribbean on a new digital platform: “The Afterlives of Slavery.” Each artist was invited to create a digital performance/visual art piece reflecting on the legacies of slavery in their respective countries. The project has chosen the Caribbean to account for multiple structures of racial domination that emerged from different histories of slavery and articulated through varying iconographies of blackness.
The group will launch the exhibit during two virtual roundtables with the invited artists on April 19 (in English) and April 20 (in Spanish). Both events will begin at 4:00 pm CST.