10.27.14: decolonizing the white box
A community forum exploring the experiences of people of color in/around the art world. Artists, audiences and art workers welcome. One of the intentions for this conversation is to expand on collective response to the whiteness of recent surveys of contemporary art (The Whitney Biennial, Made in LA), and also to consider the positions of artists of color within/around/outside colonial and racist institutional spaces. How to resist/challenge/bypass museum non-engagement with communities of color; how to resist/challenge/bypass art historical oblivion. Honoring artists practicing on the "outside" of the museum but from the inside of a community, artists whose art is perhaps anti-art, artists who fought these fights in the 90s, the 80s, the 70s....
8PM
Inspired in part by Sesshu Foster's "It's [NOT] OK" blog post re the whiteness of Made in LA, and the conversations that writing enabled.
http://atomikaztex.wordpress.com/2014/09/07/review-of-made-in-l-a-at-the-ucla-hammer-museum/
Moderated by Raquel Gutiérrez, hosted by HRLA.
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The Hammer biennial was one of the most inclusive biennials I've yet seen. The biennial had at least 11 artists of color out of 35 (by my count). It was the first biennial in the history of biennials to have more female artists than male artists. Incidentally, it was criticized in Art in America for being "too PC". I doubt this was because of a business as usual approach by the curators. Accusing curators and institutions with wholly inaccurate "facts" that are easily discounted (look up Made in LA 2014 on the Hammer website for a reality check), as was done by both the blogger and HRLA, is grossly unprofessional and disturbing.