Events
Ongoing:
9 February to 13 May 2018 (Paris, France)
En Suspens / In Between
"This exhibition is a poetic, abstract, fragile attempt to translate something of our times. Something indefinable, intangible but that might be recognised as the condition of one person, of several or of all: being in a state of suspension."
With Bas Jan Ader, Luc Delahaye, Darek Fortas, Hiwa K, Aglaia Konrad, Jacques-Henri Michot, Rabih Mroué, Mélanie Pavy, Sebastian Stumpf, Paola Yacoub, & Henk Wildschut, curated by Le BAL Director Diane Dufour.
Le BAL, 6, Impasse de la Défense, 75018 Paris, France
10 March to 22 April 2018 (Houston, TX)
Discoveries of the Meeting Place
Fotofest Biennial
Spring Street Studios, 1824 Spring St, Houston, TX 77007
8 April to 5 May 2018 (Los Angeles, CA)
Paris Photo-Aperture Book Awards Exhibition
Month of Photography Los Angeles
Upcoming:
22 April 2018, 2:30-5:30pm (New York, NY)
ICP Lab: Blue Skies and Bad Dreams
International Center of Photography Museum, 250 Bowery, New York, NY
Poets, thinkers, historians, and artists come together to reflect on Anton Kusters’s use of metaphor in his Blue Skies Project, a multimedia project centered on 1,078 photographs of the blue skies above every known SS concentration camp that existed between 1933 and 1945. With Bayeté Ross Smith, Carole Naggar, Anton Kusters, Ruben Samama, Ivan Sigal, Nayland Blake, and Maaza Mengiste. Moderated by Fred Ritchin.
6 May 2018, 12:25-1:15pm (Sydney, Australia) *Register here for the all-day seminar.
"Art of Activism: Human Rights & Social Issues," Lecture & discussion with James Whitlow Delano and Andrea Durbach
Photography, Power & Passion Seminar
Head On Photo Festival
Palace Cinemas - Chauvel Cinema, 249 Oxford Street, Paddington, Sydney, Australia
14 June 2018, 6-8pm (Philadelphia, PA)
Opening reception & Artist's talk
Welcome to Camp America: Inside Guantánamo Bay exhibition
Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, 1400 N. American St. #1003, Philadelphia, PA 19122
28 June 2018, 6pm (Philadelphia, PA)
Panel discussion, "Rendered: Art, Wrongful Imprisonment and Guantánamo"
Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, 1400 N. American St. #1003, Philadelphia, PA 19122
The book, Welcome to Camp America: Inside Guantánamo Bay (Radius, 2017), will be on view among shortlisted titles in the Paris Photo-Aperture Book Awards Exhibition, touring through 2018 as follows:
7 to 17 June 2018: Photo Basel, Switzerland
12 to 17 June 2018: Deichtorhallen, Hamburg Triennial of Photography, Germany
18 to 21 October 2018: Medium Festival of Photography, San Diego, California
Selected Recent Events:
14 March 2017 (UN Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland)
Panelist, "Saying War, Building Peace."
Side event in parallel with the 34th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, hosted by the Wallonia-Brussels general Delegation in Geneva (Mission of Belgium), the International Film Festival & Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH) in Geneva, the Mundaneum, and the Henri La Fontaine Foundation.
Palais des Nations, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
22 April 2017 (Chicago, IL)
Presentation, “Welcome to Camp America: Toward a New Documentary Form.”
Open Engagement 2017: JUSTICE
*Open Engagement is an annual, three-day, artist-led conference dedicated to expanding the dialogue around and creating a site of care for the field of socially engaged art. The conference highlights the work of transdisciplinary artists, activists, students, scholars, community members, and organizations working within the complex social issues and struggles of our time.
Chicago, IL
22 July 2017 (Santa Fe, NM)
Opening Reception, Something Fierce, featuring eight women artists in the Lannan Foundation's collection whose work exemplifies an element of ferocity, whether it be expressed in the subject, process or intent. With Christine Corday, Sharon Core, Roni Horn, Munson Hunt, An-My Lê, Sarah Pickering, and Victoria Sambunaris.
Lannan Foundation Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
15 September 2017 (Providence, RI)
Symposium panelist, Guantánamo Going Forward: What's Next for Current and Former Detainees?
With releasee memoirist Mohamedou Ould Slahi and attorney J. Wells Dixon of the Center for Constitutional Rights.
Brown University, Providence, RI
5 October 2017 (New York, NY)
Panelist, Bending the Frame: Where Do We Go From Here?
Moderated by Fred Ritchin, with Jennifer Karady, Bayeté Ross Smith, Celia A. Shapiro, and Benjamin Petit of #Dysturb.
How can we as artists, documentarians, and activists use visual imagery in alternative ways so as to have an impact on a society that is increasingly submerged by—and immune to—imagery of all kinds? This panel discussion, in conjunction with the exhibition "Bending the Frame" at the Gulf & Western Gallery of the Tisch School of the Arts, provides a platform for individuals working on critical social issues to explain their strategies as image-makers, and the ways in which they have managed, in an era of "fake news" and "alternative truths," to make a difference in people's lives.
NYU Tisch School of the Arts, NYC, NY
28 October 2017 (New York, NY)
Interdisciplinary panel discussion on Guantánamo Bay, art, and social justice, with Debi Cornwall, releasee memoirist Mohamedou Ould Slahi, former Criminal Investigation Task Force (CITF) deputy commander Mark Fallon, and Center for Constitutional Rights attorney J. Wells Dixon. Moderated by critic and scholar Fred Ritchin.
Steven Kasher Gallery, NYC, NY
13 November 2017 (Paris, France)
"Photography in the Age of Global Surveillance and Perpetual Wars."
Presentation and panel discussion with photographer, writer and LCC lecturer, Lewis Bush.
Columbia University Global Centers, Paris, France
10 February 2018 (Paris, France)
Conversation between Debi Cornwall, Aglaia Konrad, Paola Yacoub, and curator Diane Dufour on work in the group show, En Suspens / In Between. Le BAL, Paris, France
16 March 2018 (Houston, TX)
Creative Conversation with New York Times Lens Blog editor James Estrin
Fotofest Biennial, Houston, Texas
5 April 2018 (New York, NY)
Aperture PhotoBook Spotlight talk with Lesley A. Martin and Radius Books Founder & Designer David Chickey
AIPAD, NYC