Nicole R. Fleetwood and Maria Gaspar, 11/7/22 - SAIC's Visiting Artists Program

Scholar Nicole R. Fleetwood and artist Maria Gaspar discuss artmaking and incarceration followed by an audience Q&A.
Nicole R. Fleetwood is a writer, curator, art critic, and author of Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Harvard University Press, 2020). Her interests are contemporary Black diasporic art and visual culture, photography studies, art and public practice, performance studies, gender and feminist studies, Black cultural history, creative nonfiction, prison abolition and carceral studies, and poverty studies. Fleetwood is a MacArthur Fellow and the inaugural James Weldon Johnson Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication in the Steinhardt School at New York University.
Maria Gaspar is an interdisciplinary artist negotiating the politics of location through installation, sculpture, sound, and performance. Gaspar’s work addresses issues of spatial justice in order to amplify, mobilize, or divert structures of power through individual and collective gestures. Her work spans formats and durations, including sound performances at a military site in New Haven (Sounds for Liberation); long-term public art interventions at the largest jail in the country (96 Acres Project, Chicago); appropriations of museum archives (Brown Brilliance Darkness Matter); and audio-video works documenting a jail located in her childhood neighborhood (On the Border of What is Formless and Monstrous).
Presented in partnership with the Chicago Humanities Festival and the Terra Foundation series on American Art.