About this Event
Encountering the World Across Difference: Opacity, Solidarity, and Art
Talk by William Wilson Corcoran Visiting Professor Lecture with Aruna D’Souza
Thursday, December 1, 2022
500 17th Street NW (please use our NY Street entrance)
Talk: 5:30-6:30 pm (Hammer Auditorium) • Reception: 6:30-7:30 pm
The reception also honors the opening of Prof. D’Souza’s class show, “Encounters at 500 17th St NW.”
Encountering the World Across Difference is a talk by Professor Aruna D’Souza that explores questions about how one makes and writes about art in ways that respect the autonomy and sovereignty of others, with a particular attention to the writings of Édouard Glissant and Saidiya Hartman, and the work of Simone Leigh and Jennifer Packer. This theme is at the heart of the exhibition opening in the Corcoran vestibule, “Encounters at 500 17th St NW,” on December 1, and works from that show will also be featured.
Aruna D'Souza, this year’s William Wilson Corcoran Visiting Professor of Social Engagement at GW’s Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, writes about modern and contemporary art; intersectional feminisms and other forms of politics; and how museums shape our views of each other and the world. Her work appears regularly in 4Columns.org and The New York Times. Her book, Whitewalling: Art, Race, and Protest in 3 Acts (Badlands Unlimited), was named one of the best art books of 2018 by the New York Times. She is editor of Lorraine O’Grady’s Writing in Space 1973-2018 (Duke University Press, 2020), and is co-curator of the retrospective of O’Grady’s work, Both/And, which opened in March 2021. She received the 2021 Rabkin Prize for art journalism and a 2019 Andy Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant.
Masks must be worn in the hammer auditorium.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Hammer Auditorium, Flagg Building, Corcoran School for the Arts and Design, George Washington University, Please use New York Avenue Door, 500 17th Street Northwest, Washington, United States
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