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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