CFA + IMMA Intensive: Fugitivity, Feminism and the Archive

17 Oct 2023
 - 23 Oct 2023
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NCAD

Dates

17th, 18th and 23rd October 2023

Fees

€200

Location

NCAD + IMMA

About

This three-day intensive engages with the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) exhibition Howardena Pindell: A Renewed Language, (June-October 2023) by the American artist, activist and educator, Howardena Pindell, and the intertwined topics of feminism, black activism as well as discourses of race and ethnicity in an Irish context.

 

Particular attention will be paid to exploring how the concept of fugitivity and how it might shape radical engagements with existing and potential archives. 

 

Fugitivity is a malleable and indeterminate concept: it references historic narratives of fugitive slaves and wider accounts of black survival and resistance. It mirrors the material and corporeal phenomena of flight: movement and change, unruliness and disobedience, negation and refusal. The flights of fugitivity reject the liberal politics of a dominant order and its deferred promises of equality, which remain mired in classism, sexism and racism.

 

What will I do?

Participants will be introduced to the rich and allusive writing of figures like Fred Moten, Akwugo Emejulu, Tina Campt and Saidiya Hartman. Through discussions, conversations, collaborative research and ideations, their concepts will be related to the work of Howardena Pindell and to the NIVAL project: “Archiving Plurality: A Collaborative Process”. Participants will also engage in self-directed and collaborative work to explore how concepts of fugitivity might be used as a speculative provocation to expand, reshape and unmake existing, future and imagined archives.

Schedule: 

17th Oct, IMMA Fugitivity and Howardena Pindell – talks, seminars, discussion

10am-12.30pm and 2pm – 4.30pm

 

18th Oct, NCAD, Seminar, 9am-12.30pm 

23rd Oct, IMMA,  Participants presentations, 9.30am-12.30pm

Guest speakers and contributors to the programme include:
  • Sara Muthi (IMMA)
  • John Wilkins (IMMA/TCD)
  • Janet Neary (Hunter College NY)
  • Beulah Ezeugo (Eireann and I)

Sara Muthi (IMMA)

Dr John Wilkins

Janet Neary

Beulah Ezeugo (Eireann and I)

Who is it for?

This intensive will appeal to artists, designers, activists, researchers, archivists and post-graduate students interested in thinking collaboratively about racial justice.

 

Fees and application process

There is a fee of €200

Book via NCAD HERE

 

Programme Staff

Fiona Loughnane loughnanef@staff.ncad.ie

Alessia Cargnelli  cargnellia@staff.ncad.ie

Contact the Admissions Staff
postgraduate@ncad.ie

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