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Following William Kentridge's campus residency, UC Berkeley scholars gather to assess the artist's cultural, ideological, and formal contributions.Participants:
Nana Adusei-Poku (History of Art) is a scholar of African diasporic art and the author of Taking Stakes in the Unknown: Tracing Post-Black Art (2022).
Lara Mientjes (English) studies the intersection of poetry and visual art. She focuses on the “how” of poetry and other media, exploring questions of attention, immersion, and imagination.
Zamansele Nsele (History of Art) is completing a book project entitled "Reckoning with (Post) Apartheid and Colonial Nostalgias in Contemporary Archival Art Practice."
Mary Ann Smart (Music) is editor of Siren Songs: Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Opera and author of Waiting for Verdi: Opera and Political Opinion in 19th-Century Italy, 1815-1848.
Cosponsored by the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
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Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, United States